BCT-3122-D800-10240 Posted March 22, 2013 Report Share Posted March 22, 2013 Has anyone seen 1216 at the WV yard or in service? That's the only one I personally haven't seen yet. According to a post in the West Vancouver thread, it hasn't arrived over there yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehlun Posted March 23, 2013 Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 Hmmm. I realized that the Xcelsior uses fiberglass like the NovaBuses. Might explain why there is no charcoal paint. Perhaps the yellow and blue stripes on the sides are decals like the NovaBuses. Anybody had a closer look? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citaro Posted March 23, 2013 Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 Hmmm. I realized that the Xcelsior uses fiberglass like the NovaBuses. Might explain why there is no charcoal paint. Perhaps the yellow and blue stripes on the sides are decals like the NovaBuses. Anybody had a closer look? All of our buses have fiberglass body components; I highly doubt that this has anything to do with the charcoal paint. I think that they are just trying to simplify the paint scheme as the current array if colours makes painting very time-consuming. I'm very confident that the blue and yellow stripes on our Xcelsiors are painted, though I can't attest to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
translink fan Posted March 23, 2013 Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 Im pretty sure they are painted, i ran my finger across one of the xcelsiors' stripes and it felt smooth and seamless. No layers as far as i saw for decals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ehlun Posted March 25, 2013 Report Share Posted March 25, 2013 That's disappointing then that they dropped the charcoal paint for no reason other than cost. They had charcoal on all new buses and SkyTrains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dane Posted March 26, 2013 Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 It was not cost. It was an error, an ex-coworker of mine from my TL days now works in procurements and let me know when I asked a while back. Nova specs were used because that was the last "big bus" purchase they'd done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cathay 888 Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 Some more late photos of the Xcelsior from West Van~~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Board Admin A. Wong Posted April 27, 2013 Board Admin Report Share Posted April 27, 2013 Here is a photo of 1212 from 34 stories up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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