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If i remember correctly, the figure was over $300,000 per bus. Much more than the $180,000 Arboc cost. I remember when they first got them, they were based at Victoria Park and didn't seem to get the same TLC as the other shuttle buses. Someone on this board mentioned they were more reliable out of Spring Gardens. 

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22 hours ago, highfive said:

If i remember correctly, the figure was over $300,000 per bus. Much more than the $180,000 Arboc cost. I remember when they first got them, they were based at Victoria Park and didn't seem to get the same TLC as the other shuttle buses. Someone on this board mentioned they were more reliable out of Spring Gardens. 

Everything is more reliable out of SG, best of the garages imo.

Anyway I am told that one is sold, don't know which one or to whom, but 1621 is inside diesel so maybe its this one. Am also told that three or four are already for the scrapman.

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Alot of the reason for the u reliablity of the eldorados at vic park was the parts situation. Vic park didnt have several parts the eldorados required and as a result, bandaid fixes were done until the parts were ferried over from spring gardens when the bus was finally deemed unfixable unless the proper part was used

 

To the point of spring gardens reliability vs vic park, statistically, per service hour, vic park actually beat them out by 1/10 of an hour in quarter 1 of 2016...and has the last few quarters.

 

in comparison of these buses to the arbocs, these vehicles only have half the life span and half the milage they are designed for. Someone at vic park diesel stated that there may be a couple of the 1st generation arbocs that have higher milage then some of these arbocs.

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I noticed a few parked there a few posts back! ;)

On May 13, 2016 at 8:10 PM, Issack said:

Saw about 10 elderados parked in the mud pit at SG by the last few 1995 units that are being shipped to Winnipeg .... 

 

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I saw a few active Eldorado's running a few weeks ago, but I have not seen one in more than 2 weeks now. Earlier today while talking to a very new Shuttle Operator that told me that no training was done on the Eldorado's, that tells me, they are toast.

1610 is oldest one last active in this block: https://transit55.ca/calgary/bus?id=1610 dated July 22, 2016.

1616 last ran on July 30, 2016: https://transit55.ca/calgary/bus?id=1616 .

Those are the only 2 Eldorado's that I could find active on Transit55.ca .  Some had dead CAD systems and may have run since then, but I am doubting many more than maybe 1 or 2 lived into August at this point.

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As per spring gardens diesel and bus training, all eldorados are officially done as of August 1. On my trip to Spring Gardens at the beginning of the month, 17 were counted in the graveyard (no fleet numbers, farebox or cad), 5 on the south and east fence (no fleet numbers or cad ), 1 on the north fence (fully intact scheduled to be decomissioned by the end of the week) and 1 in the diesel shop (farebox, cad and fleet numbers being removed)

 

Eldorado training has been suspended since February.

 

I confirmed last week some have already been shipped out. Twice now i have spotted eldorados with no fleet numbers on flatback trucks exiting the city to the south on Deerfoot.

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Finally removing the ElDorados from Transit55 - for archival's sake, here's some of the last information (going back to March 11, 2016) I have on them.

1601 Last seen Mar 26 at 16:29, on route 114 Panorama Country Hills
1602 Last seen May 16 at 1:21, out of service
1603 Last seen Jun 26 at 13:48, on route 420 Evanston
1604 Last seen Mar 22 at 1:25, out of service
1605 Last seen May 1 at 17:57, on route 86 Coventry Hills
1606 Last seen Jun 21 at 6:37, on route 407 Greenwood
1607 Last seen Apr 19 at 22:43, out of service
1608 Last seen Apr 5 at 1:26, out of service
1609 Last seen May 10 at 8:46, out of service
1610 Last seen Jul 23 at 6:12, out of service
1611 Last seen May 1 at 10:52, on route 429 Sherwood
1612 Last seen Apr 25 at 11:35, on route 46 Beddington

1613 Last seen Jun 17 at 21:27, on route 425 Route 425
1614 No Info
1615 No Info
1616 Last seen Jul 30 at 9:51, on route 8 North Pointe
1617 Last seen Jun 10 at 12:56, on route 425 Route 425
1618 Last seen Apr 14 at 20:34, on route 77 Edgemont
1619 No Info
1620 Last seen Apr 25 at 19:05, on route 408 Brentwood
1621 Last seen May 11 at 15:54, on route 122 Varsity
1622 Last seen Mar 21 at 0:53, out of service
1623 Last seen Mar 11 at 16:28, on route 9 Bridgeland
1624 No Info

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I received a roster with VINs from Charlottetown Transit (also known as T3 Transit) today. They have a total of 11 ex-Calgary El Dorado  buses. They have numbered the buses 60-71 (conveniently skipping over 69).

60 - ex Calgary Transit 1618

61 - ex Calgary Transit 1609

62 - ex Calgary Transit 1604

63 - ex Calgary Transit 1605

64 - ex Calgary Transit 1607

65 - ex Calgary Transit 1620

66 - ex Calgary Transit 1602

67 - ex Calgary Transit 1610

68 - ex Calgary Transit 1621

70 - ex Calgary Transit 1623

71 - ex Calgary Transit 1613

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