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Clint Eastwood rode in a WMATA GM New Look in "In the Line of Fire". 

Gainesville, FL Gillig low floor at Main Street Station bus parking on its way from the factory. 

I remember those AM Generals could move out pretty good, particularly along East West Highway from Ager Road to PG Plaza.  If the buses could make that light at 23rd Ave., they were off to the races.   The 35 footers on the F8 used to like the downhill ride on University Blvd. from Adelphi Road to the area just to the east of 23rd Ave.

That's just about when they were getting phased out.  The 8700 series Flxible Metros replaced them.

That is pretty neat though that you could remember the original use of those numbers and now see the new incarnation of them.  Even though I don't live in the DC area anymore, it's strange thinking of the 1000s getting retired and moving on to a new generation of subway cars.  It probably won't be very long until WMATA has a new set of 1000's once they need to start getting rid of some of the other series over the next decade.

LOL, yeah and with the sheer volume of vehicles NYC uses, it's probably pretty easy to do that.  It does make me feel old though when I can remember the original use of a fleet number.....

Kinda cool that the newest New Flyers are in the 7000s just as the AM Generals (which were also New Flyer based) were in that series as well.  Let's hope the newest batch holds up much better than the AMGs! Although, I miss the old tweed seats and rattly, loud engines!

I'm wondering if they were taking I-40 to 93, then cut up to I-15 North through Las Vegas and Salt Lake City, then I-80 to the west?  If not, they'll be taking 40 all the way out and then I guess somehow hook up with I-5.  What a trip!!  That bus will  have 5,000 miles on it before it even goes into service!

That bus is still probably making its way up there!!

I may actually be going to Seattle for a couple of days in August for an APTA Multimodal Operations Planning workshop.  It's going to be quick though...up on the Monday that the conference begins and coming home Wednesday.  I won't even really have time to do any riding.  Based on the schedule of courses, the days are packed and there are events in the evening too.  In fact, I'm going to be so pressed for time in the AM getting there that I'll have to cab it because to take the light rail and a bus to where the event is would take well over an hour vs. 20 minutes in a taxi.  Going home I would take a late enough flight that I'd have time to do transit. 

It just depends on what the final cost of everything will be if my agency can swing it.

Ahh, yes, that was the same color I saw.  I wonder why they were taking the southern route and then having to head all the way up to Seattle that way?  I would have thought they would have taken I-70.  I guess they were coming from somewhere in the south.

Thanks for that picture!  It's cool watching the buses getting delivered.  The green and blue one I saw almost looked like Ride-On colors, but not sure if they're expecting anything new.

I love driving along I-40 since there are always Gillig's being delivered.  On our way to and from Albuquerque, I saw Gilligs being delivered to East Carolina State University and Rutgers University. Also saw a plain red one, but since it didn't have a name on it, not sure where it's going.  Maybe York?  A green a blue one rolled by as well.  Then coming back from ABQ today saw an Orion VII heading westbound.  It was yellow from the windows down with purple on the top half.  I couldn't see any names on it either so I have no idea where it was headed. 

On a Saturday you won't be able to do too much! 

Fred, her name is actually Monique Wyche.  She's been an operator there forever!! She has super long finger nails.  I don't know how she drives the bus with those, but she's really good!  A lot of people from when I was there are still there.  Good to see longevity.

I have some hidden codes still on the PRTC buses from when we had the State Roadeo there a few years ago.  One is Roadeo shuttle and others have the names of the participants.  I can't remember the code numbers I used though.  I have some other hidden destination signs too.

That was a lot of fun working the event.  Say hi to everyone there for me!

You saw a lot of stuff standing on the corner across from BTC, even the one blue-tanked ex City Ride CNG that never saw service for City Ride but repainted to RTC colors buses!

It was great to see you and catch up on things.