CV92 Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 Article about the 6 bus refurbishment program http://www.transitbc.com/regions/cam/news/.../cam-nr1476.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
323 Surrey Ctrl Stn Posted January 23, 2011 Report Share Posted January 23, 2011 Sounds like D40LF's too me? Chris Cassidy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SidneyTransitfan Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 If anybody has been up to Campbell River recently, has anyone seen 8912 around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCT-3122-D800-10240 Posted July 3, 2012 Report Share Posted July 3, 2012 If anybody has been up to Campbell River recently, has anyone seen 8912 around? I get the feeling it may be gone.... I believe someone mentioned somewhere that there are no longer any Classics left in service with BC Transit? I am trying to remember where I found that information. But yes, it would be nice if someone could let us know if #8912 is still active or not so one of us can edit the WIKI: http://www.cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Campbell_River_Transit_System Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SidneyTransitfan Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 Wiki edited with my findings from Campbell River these past few days. It seems 9848-9850 have been transferred from somewhere. I've added them to the wiki. Didn't see 9749, but it might have been in the maintenance shops. 9910 and 9911 are still active. According to the manager I spoke to, 607 and 8912 were scrapped last year. However, I spotted ex. BC Transit 8908 out at an auto wreckers yard on Vigar Road! It's been spray-painted white on one side. The wrecker is using it for storage, but he did say he would let it go for a good price. The transmission is dead and it needs a new steering column, but the bus is fully intact otherwise. Anyone interested? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CV92 Posted September 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 9848 is from Powell River, 9849-50 are from Chilliwack. Was there any sign of 9855? I believe that's the fire victim from a few years ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SidneyTransitfan Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 I didn't see 9855 from what I recall... I didn't look in the body shop though. I went to the yard and asked if I could take some pictures of the buses, and they let me in but not into the garage, so all I saw was C-984, 9853, 9856 and 9910. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigbc2001 Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 Isn't that 9855 in the back rear side window of 9849? Parked right beside it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SidneyTransitfan Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 No, that is 9856 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Bus Fan Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Next week I am going to island. I am wondering what routes the D40LF and Darts operate on? What routes the Ford Polars operate on? Are the Dennis Darts in the new livery for BC Transit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Dunlop Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Next week I am going to island. I am wondering what routes the D40LF and Darts operate on? What routes the Ford Polars operate on? Are the Dennis Darts in the new livery for BC Transit? Last time I was in Campbell River, I only saw a Dart running on the 4 "Campbellton". D40LFs are very common. You'll be guaranteed to see one. The Darts are unique. both 30' and one is refurbished! I don't believe they have any shuttle routes. I think the Polars are used for HandyDart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Bus Fan Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 I don't believe they have any shuttle routes. I think the Polars are used for HandyDart.Then some needs to change section that those are into the HandyDart fleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Dunlop Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Then some needs to change section that those are into the HandyDart fleet. When myself and Sidneytransitfan were both there last, we saw a shuttle in the yard, but none on the road. I'm not a wiki editor; you might want to update it when you visit CR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Broughton Posted March 18, 2014 Report Share Posted March 18, 2014 Then some needs to change section that those are into the HandyDart fleet. Noticed this in the Cowichan Wiki as well. They have never had "Shuttle" routes, and some units listed were retired before Community shuttles were invented. Such buses are more appropriately described as :"Custom/Paratransit Vehicles used in Conventional Service" or, in a case like Cranbrook Paratransit, which in the 1990s used ex Victoria 766, "Conventional Vehicles used in Custom/Paratransit service". A small bus is only a community shuttle when it is serving a route designated as such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Dunlop Posted March 19, 2014 Report Share Posted March 19, 2014 Then some needs to change section that those are into the HandyDart fleet. When you do go to Campbell River (and anybody else for that matter) be sure to look for 89xx GM Classic. I can't recall the number, but Harry saw it at an auto wreckers yard... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
East Van Fan Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 That would be 8908 from the auto wreckers yard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Dunlop Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 That would be 8908 from the auto wreckers yard IF it's still there. Harry hasn't looked for 2 years now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
323 Surrey Ctrl Stn Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 I was up there in December, it's still there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Bus Fan Posted April 2, 2014 Report Share Posted April 2, 2014 I notice the bumpers only had the two last number on each of D40LF. Does any know why they do not have the full set of numbers on the bumpers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Dunlop Posted April 2, 2014 Report Share Posted April 2, 2014 I noticed that too when I was in Campbell River last time. I don't exactly know why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCW Metrobus Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 It's been like that since around late 2008 or early 2009. Probably just so mechanics or dispatch can tell them apart easily in the yard, i.e. "Take bus 49" instead of 9849, because in a small system like that it isn't all that often that two buses have the same two final digits in their fleet numbers. My memory of the Campbell River fleet is from 5 years ago but before they got 9849 and 9850, they had 9749. Here's a pic of 9749 in 2008 before it had bumper numbers: http://www.trans-continental.ca/bc-transit/1996newflyerD40LF-AC/bct9749_crv-7A.jpg.php And here's a pic I took a year later of the same bus with the number 49 on the bumper. http://www.trans-continental.ca/bc-transit/1996newflyerD40LF-AC/bct9749_crv_09.jpg.php And here's 9749 running in Kelowna in 2013, after receiving a Balios sign, still with the number 49 on the bumper: http://www.trans-continental.ca/bc-transit/1996newflyerD40LF-AC/bct9749_kel_11.jpg.php Back when I took those photos in Campbell River, their fleet consisted of two Darts (9910, 9911), marked "10" and "11" (9910 before and after receiving its two-digit front number), 9749, 9853-9856 which I assume didn't receive their bumper numbers until after they were refurbished, 610 which ran on special trips only, and 607 which I suspect was a last-resort spare as I never ever saw it running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCT-3122-D800-10240 Posted April 3, 2014 Report Share Posted April 3, 2014 When I saw 9854 and 9856 back on February 26, 2009, both had the two digit bumper fleet numbers on the front - http://www.busdrawings.com/Transit/Britishcolumbia/campbell/1998d40lf/index.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Bus Fan Posted July 19, 2016 Report Share Posted July 19, 2016 New Transit Centre with CNG pumps will be built: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016TRAN0194-001306?WT.mc_id=NEWS&WT.cg_n=HootSuite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Dunlop Posted July 21, 2016 Report Share Posted July 21, 2016 On 7/19/2016 at 1:45 PM, Blue Bus Fan said: New Transit Centre with CNG pumps will be built: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2016TRAN0194-001306?WT.mc_id=NEWS&WT.cg_n=HootSuite Interesting... I suppose CNG's might work for Campbell River. From what I remember, it's pretty flat except for the #4. They'll likely order the CNG buses in 2017 to replace the 1998 D40LFs for 2018. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Bus Fan Posted July 21, 2016 Report Share Posted July 21, 2016 1 minute ago, Matt Dunlop said: Interesting... I suppose CNG's might work for Campbell River. From what I remember, it's pretty flat except for the #4. They'll likely order the CNG buses in 2017 to replace the 1998 D40LFs for 2018. I feel CNG buses will work fine in Campbell River. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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