one of the operators I know here took a trip to DC and he got to ride on this strange looking..whatever you wanna call it..whats the word with this?
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Tourmobile. I don't know if they have a specific model type however. I guess technically they are some type of artic.
I know there 55 feet long, run on gasoline, built somewhere before the 80's and ugly ass hell. Does that help any?? ;D
lol a little bit..it kinda reminds me of the Flxette even though they never made one that long so it had to be by some competitor.
I tried looking last night to see if there was a manufacturer name, but they didn't give any. There was a link in one of them that showed that there was a chance the DC Circulator would take over Tourmobile routes, but I don't know if that would fly. It would certainly take some pressure off the Park Service to not have to worry about it, but there are flaws with taking it away from them too.
Tourmobile is a contractor to the Park Service and the most successful minority owned business in DC.
Those things have been running for years and are constantly being rehabbed.
Some are even CNG
But they are not being taken over no how no way.
Those ugly @$$ busses? U ve beeen seeing them for years them the other day i started thinking of that bus and those orange nd green trolleys and the duck buses all the ugly buses that gives people tours they need to buy new buses and they use gasoline? Bet they dont use airbrakes to it probally gonna be like driving a car and i cant belive the worst buses these days are CNG and the international looking style ART bus some buses are better not being manufacterd at all back to the point this company really needs to keep up to date in the transportation game but whats the point if they get some 60-BRT's OR 62LFA's like WMATA they will demolish the windows of those buses for some apperant reason.
You know, thanks for reminding me about this. I really should go ride this service, because I wanted to ever since I was a very little kid and I would see them going around (I wanted to ride everything back then).
After all, I missed out on these vehicles I saw as a kid but never rode since they were retired before my "independence":
SEPTA AM Generals
SEPTA Volvo Artics
WMATA Gilligs (although I don't think I really wanted to ride them anyway).
The Arlington Cemetery tour seems mildly affordable.
Someone somewhere had info on these "things". From what I remembered was that whoever made these P.O.S. went out of business a while back.
I thought these things would have been replaced a while back.
Whoever owns Tourmobile didn't want to give up the business and was PO'ed to high heaven when DC suggested the now failed Circulator route that ran around the Smithsonian.