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The '''Transit Museum Society of British Columbia''' ('''TMS''', previously abbreviated as '''TRAMS''' before 2021) is an independent registered society established in 1986 to document and preserve the province’s transit heritage. It restores and operates vehicles significant to the history of public transit in British Columbia, and maintains a library which contains thousands of documents and other artifacts that build a comprehensive picture of its evolution. | The '''Transit Museum Society of British Columbia''' ('''TMS''', previously abbreviated as '''TRAMS''' before 2021) is an independent registered society established in 1986 to document and preserve the province’s transit heritage. It restores and operates vehicles significant to the history of public transit in British Columbia, and maintains a library which contains thousands of documents and other artifacts that build a comprehensive picture of its evolution. | ||
Based in | Based in Langley with a secondary storage facility in Deroche, the Society currently has a fleet of seventeen vehicles: fifteen operational and two non-operational. These vehicles were previously in use by both public and private operating companies between 1937 and 2021. Volunteers from the Society also operated the Vancouver Downtown Historic Railway and carried out restoration and maintenance of the historic electric interurban cars used on that line, until its operation was suspended indefinitely in 2012. | ||
==Current fleet summary== | ==Current fleet summary== | ||
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*Ex-[[Pacific Stage Lines]] 63. | *Ex-[[Pacific Stage Lines]] 63. | ||
*Last remaining operational Hayes-Anderson bus in the world. | *Last remaining operational Hayes-Anderson bus in the world. | ||
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|678 | |678 | ||
| | |[[File:BC Transit 678-a.jpg|128px]] | ||
|1959 | |1959 | ||
|[[General Motors|GM]] | |[[General Motors|GM]] | ||
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|M852 | |M852 | ||
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|1947 | |1947 | ||
|[[Twin Coach]] | |[[Twin Coach]] | ||
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|2416 | |2416 | ||
| | |[[File:BC_Hydro_Transit_2416-a.jpg|128px]] | ||
|1954 | |1954 | ||
|[[Canadian Car and Foundry|CCF Brill]] | |[[Canadian Car and Foundry|CCF Brill]] | ||
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|3404-3405 | |3404-3405 | ||
| | |[[File:BC Transit 3404-a.jpg|128px]] | ||
|1957 | |1957 | ||
|[[Canadian Car and Foundry|CCF Brill]] | |[[Canadian Car and Foundry|CCF Brill]] | ||
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|9753 | |9753 | ||
|[[Image:BC Transit 9753- | |[[Image:BC Transit 9753-b.jpg|128px]] | ||
|1996 | |1996 | ||
|[[New Flyer Industries|New Flyer]] | |[[New Flyer Industries|New Flyer]] | ||
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!Destination sign | !Destination sign | ||
!Notes | !Notes | ||
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|132 | |||
|[[File:Edmonton Transit System 132-a.jpg|128px]] | |||
|1982 | |||
|[[General Motors|GM]]/[[Asea Brown Boveri|BBC]] | |||
|[[Edmonton Transit System 100-199|HR150G]] | |||
|[[Asea Brown Boveri|BBC]] electric | |||
|N/A | |||
|Rollsign | |||
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*Based on [[General Motors T6H-5307N|T6H-5307N]]. | |||
*Ex-[[Edmonton Transit System]] [[Edmonton Transit System 100-199|132]]. | |||
*Salvaged for parts and scrapped in April 2022 following an unsuccessful attempt to donate to the Public Transport and Infrastructure Association in Sofia, Bulgaria | |||
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