MTA on April 1, 2011: MCI D4500 coach #174C at Gaithersburg P&R operating the 4:00 PM Route 201 ICC Express Service to BWI Airport.
6449 at Canal and Foxhall on the D5.
5218 on 18th St NW in Adams Morgan, signed "Not in Service". A little far from its territory unless it was going to cover a run on the X3.
MTA Commuter Bus #169C on the shoulder of I-370 E/B with it's engine doors open.
2088 on the J7
MARC: MP-36 locomotive #28 on the headend of train P891, service to Frederick, at Gaithersburg on 4/6/2011 right "on the advertised" at 4:21 PM.
METRO: #6200 on the southbound J9 (I-270 express) with service to Bethesda at about 5:50 PM at Route 124 and I-270.
Quote from: WMAveteran on April 06, 2011, 10:52:57 PM
MARC: MP-36 locomotive #28 on the headend of train P891, service to Frederick, at Gaithersburg on 4/6/2011 right "on the advertised" at 4:21 PM.
METRO: #6200 on the southbound J9 (I-270 express) with service to Bethesda at about 5:50 PM at Route 124 and I-270.
the southbound J9 around that time would be the J7
5575 was at Wheaton this morning, most likely for an 8 run. I would've liked to have gotten a ride on it, but I was already on 6202, heading towards P.G. Plaza on the C4.
Later on, while riding the 5 to White Flint, I saw 5376 being towed down Seminary Road.
Today I saw 5209, 5218, and 5231 all on the X2.
METRO: on Sunday, April 17, 2011, 5:40 PM, on the southbound span of the 14th Bridge: #2701 operating Route 5A express service to Dulles Airport carrying no passengers! Usually every time I see a 5A it is packed to the windshields with passengers.
2464 Rt 79
5203 on the X2 about an hour ago at Lafayette Square
Another trackwork PR screwup from Metro: It seems that the short turn Red Lines are turning back at New York Avenue and Friendship Heights, even though the press release on their website says the short turn service will run from Silver Spring to Grosvenor as it usually does. Frankly, since the trackwork zone is at White Flint on the west side AFAIK, I don't get why Medical Center isn't the turnback point.
5808 on the 55; its side sign keeps alternating between "55 ROCKVILLE" and "ROAD TEST".
Green Line train at College Park signed as RED UNION STATION.
Driving down Reno Road tonight between Van Ness and Porter, the old H3 bus stop poles are still in the ground with notices that the stops were discontinued but the flags have been removed. The guide a ride boxes are still installed but I wasn't able to see if the contents were removed or not.
I guess the exhaust package type contraptions that are on Landover's buses are now starting to be put onto Western's buses. I saw 6449 with it this morning. I also saw the white C40LFR heading towards Rosslyn via I-66.
From Sunday,
This might be considered a weird sighting as I wouldn't think these would go out on a Sunday but saw a transit seated Orion V, 4383 heading Not In Service from Landover Division. I also saw what looked to be a DC Trails Double Decker heading onto the Wilson Bridge with a destination signboard.
-3904 makes the same noise that 4309 makes (correction: 4309 still makes that noise) here's the audio clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30e7u_G8wIk)
-4392 and 4394 still have suburban seating while 4393 and 4395 now have regular seating, not sure about 4390 and 4391 yet
-4316 makes some kind of loud noise when it accelerates, i wanna say it's a screamer, but not really like the other ones
-4317 and 2018 are also screamers for the record
Quote from: WES on April 26, 2011, 01:01:21 PM
I guess the exhaust package type contraptions that are on Landover's buses are now starting to be put onto Western's buses. I saw 6449 with it this morning. I also saw the white C40LFR heading towards Rosslyn via I-66.
From Sunday,
This might be considered a weird sighting as I wouldn't think these would go out on a Sunday but saw a transit seated Orion V, 4383 heading Not In Service from Landover Division. I also saw what looked to be a DC Trails Double Decker heading onto the Wilson Bridge with a destination signboard.
I still have no idea why the modifications were made. I'm guessing either for EPA2010 compliance or something emissions related.
Quote from: NewFlyer9736BCT on April 26, 2011, 08:47:01 PM
-3904 makes the same noise that 4309 used to make (sadly they fixed it on 4309, here's the audio clip of it)
-4392 and 4394 still have suburban seating while 4393 and 4395 now have regular seating, not sure about 4390 and 4391 yet
-4316 makes some kind of loud noise when it accelerates, i wanna say it's a screamer, but not really like the other ones
-4317 and 2018 are also screamers for the record
4391 and 90 still have surburban seating, saw 4391 on the A12 yesterday.
Saw an express branded bus on the J4 at about 5:30ish at Bethesda today displaying the MetroExtra sign. Also, after the Nationals game, I was going down the center escalator at Navy Yard west side, the escalator on the left (while going down) was heading up and as a result going unused, and I was maybe two thirds of the way down when the right side escalator came to a sudden stop. People were surprised and it isn't clear what caused the escalator to stop, but no one was hurt and people just started walking down. Finally, lots of space in the center of each car was going unused on the Green Line waiting for us once I got to the platform.
On my way to the airport this morning, my 6 car Yellow Line train was a solid consist of 5000 Series cars.
MTA: a D4500 coach wrapped in the ICC scheme was operating route 950 service, destination KENT ISLAND EXPRESS, on northbound New York Avenue NE at about 6:30PM, Friday, 4/29/2011. Due to traffic and my direction of travel I couldn't record the coach number but it was interesting to note that ICC wrapped coaches are operating on MTA routes other than the 201 and 202.
Quote from: WMAveteran on April 30, 2011, 01:37:24 AM
MTA: a D4500 coach wrapped in the ICC scheme was operating route 950 service, destination KENT ISLAND EXPRESS, on northbound New York Avenue NE at about 6:30PM, Friday, 4/29/2011. Due to traffic and my direction of travel I couldn't record the coach number but it was interesting to note that ICC wrapped coaches are operating on MTA routes other than the 201 and 202.
That's odd. I know Eyre runs the 202 and Atlantic Coast Charters runs the 201, but it's odd at how Dillons got a hold of some ICC buses (unless they wrapped more buses than they needed).
Something must've happened to Ride-On's stop announcers over the weekend:
1) The "Stop Requested" message now scrolls down from above, as opposed to flashing like before.
2) It announces stops earlier than normal ("Germantown Rd. & Wisteria Dr." when we're approaching Middlebrook Rd.), and sometimes even at random ("Odendhal Ave. & Frederick Ave." when turning onto Germantown Rd. from Montgomery College; "Kingsview Village Ave. & Clopper Rd." a bit before the aforementioned "Wisteria Dr." announcement)
In addition to that, 5225's announcer was displaying stops on the 97, but not announcing them; this led to the driver overshooting a fair few "requested" stops.
And one more thing: when we returned to GTC, 5717 was sitting at the area for the 74; it's front and side signs both said "100 GERMANTOWN TRANS CNTR EXPRESS", but it's rear sign said "HELP!" Once it moved into the 100's spot and changed its destination to Shady Grove, the rear sign went back to saying "100".