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OCTA 2007-2008 New Flyer C40LFR retirement tracking thread
octabusfan92 posted a topic in Western US
Hey everyone, to keep up with the retirements of the OCTA New Flyer C40LFR, I provided a separate thread so we know which ones are retired at the moment, and which ones are still active presently. The replacements for these buses are Gillig Low Floor Plus CNG buses all to be delivered by next year at the time of writing. Retired C40LFRs Santa Ana Base 5502, 5504, 5505, 5506, 5507, 5508, 5510, 5511, 5512, 5515, 5516, 5517, 5518, 5520, 5521, 5522, 5523, 5524, 5526, 5527, 5528, 5532, 5533, 5536, 5538, 5539, 5542, 5545, 5547, 5548, 5549, 5551, 5552, 5565, 5567, 5569, 5570, 7583, 7584, 7588 Irvine (Keolis) Base 5123, 5554, 5555, 5556, 5557, 5558, 5559, 5560, 5561, 5562, 5563, 5564, 5572, 5573, 5574, 5576, 5577, 5578, 5579, 5580, 5582, 5583, 5584, 5585, 5588, 5589, 5590, 5592, 5594, 5595, 5599, 5601, 5602, 5603, 5604, 5605, 5606, 5607, 5608, 5609, 5610, 5613, 5614, 5620, 5621, 5622, 5623, 5624, 5626, 5627, 5628, 5629, 5630, 5632, 5634, 5641, 5642, 5647 Anaheim (Keolis) Base 5644, 5645, 5648, 5653, 5654, 5655, 5656, 5657, 5659, 5660, 5663, 5665, 5666, 5668, 5669, 5670, 5676, 7501, 7505, 7510, 7512, 7513, 7515, 7516, 7520, 7526, 7528, 7533, 7534, 7566, 7574 I believe units 5537, 5562, 5575, 5579, 5581, 5593, 5596, 5597, 5598, 5652, 5658, 5664, 5671, 5672, 5673, 7503, 7509, 7510, 7525, 7553 are being decommissioned as they haven’t entered service in a while. Units 5586, 5587, 5615, 5617, 5618, and 5625 are all training buses for Keolis and are based out of Anaheim. They are blank with no titles or unit numbers shown. Auction Dates: October 21, 2022: 5559, 5605 February 10, 2023: 5556, 5560, 5577, 5578, 5594, 5595, 5599, 5601, 5608, 5622, 5641, 5657, 7505, 7512, 7513, 7526 March 10, 2023: 5508, 5555, 5645, 5659, 5660, 5666 April 7, 2023: 5508, 5510, 5512, 5515, 5521, 5528, 5533, 5545, 5547, 5645, 5659, 5660, 5669, 5674, 7528 May 5, 2023: 5505, 5507, 5511, 5516, 5524, 5527, 5542, 5645, 5654, 7501 June 2, 2023: 5502, 5504, 5506, 5548, 5557, 5588, 5620, 5629, 5630 June 30, 2023: 5532, 5536, 5538, 5549, 5552, 5567, 5569, 5570 July 28, 2023: 5532, 5569, 5585, 5592, 5606, 5610, 5632, 5634, 5647, 5653, 5656, 5668, 7515 August 25, 2023: 5569 Spetember 22, 2023: 5569, 5592, 7584 October 20, 2023: 5387, 5518, 5522, 5523, 5565, 5569, 5592, 7520, 7584, 7588 5569 still hasn’t found an owner yet even after being auctioned off five times now. 5666 now with LA Charter Bus Lines as 3630 5515 now with Transit Systems 5605 and 5622 have now been scrapped On a separate note, XN40 units 5701 through 5750 have been transferred over to Keolis Irvine Base to replace some C40LFRs there, and XN40 units 5815 through 5839 have been transferred over to Keolis Anaheim Base where they have replaced some of the C40LFRs while the Gillig Low Floor Plus CNG buses are still being delivered.- 16 replies
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The pending arrival of the MPM-10 leaves us the question of what to do with the MR-63 fleet. I have looked at posts in other forums and not much serious thought has been put into what should be done with them: Scrap them (they have lived out their useful lives) Turn them into bus shelters Turn them into food or event booths Donate them to museums (Ottawa and St. Constant are interested in acquiring them) Sell them to some transit agency abroad and hope they can make them run in steel wheel configuration (expensive to ship them) Some transit networks have maintained a heritage fleet of their own for historical purposes, or offered them for charter purposes (some Quebec touring companies have purchased UK's used double decker buses). Quebec's big transit agencies have not adopted this cultural practice, and the habit here is that once a series of vehicles has done its duty, they are all thrown away. Citizens (taxpayers) must realize that even the old MR-63 is still a transportation resource that could potentially save them billions in tax dollars. Montreal's population is rapidly growing and densifying. Our city and province are deeply indebted and may not be able to afford new cars in the near future. The purchase of brand new cars, their constantly inflating price and the procurement mess that happens during such an event can be avoided. Nostalgia aside, serious thought must be given to the possibility of carefully mothballing some of them as a fleet that can be used for network expansion. Different levels of preservation should be considered: The bare minimum is to maintain a single train of 9 cars solely for heritage purposes, with spare parts from scrapped vehicles. Maintain a small active fleet four to six trains in their current configuration (36-54 cars) with a stock of spare parts to create capacity or to accommodate the load from network expansion Strip and mothball enough carshells to create four to eight complete trains (36-72 cars), rebuild them to new specifications or MR-73 configuration when they are needed Mothball a large part of the entire fleet for use and rebuild (difficult and may be impractical to warehouse them) Any thoughts? (I know some will simply fire off a "they're done and are about to turn to dust" argument).
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