A Flxible Metro Followed by an Orion V?

[TransitGuru1981X]

Hi,

How many times in your life have you seen a WMATA Flxible Metro D (#9801-9818) pass by and then seeing a RideOn Orion V (#5550-5566 and 5572-5579), or maybe, a DASH Gillig Phantom (#54-58) follow it? The reason I brought up these three fleets is because they all employ Cummins M11E engines (except DASH 54-58, which use the M11's successor, the ISM) and Voith D863.3 transmissions.

~Ben

[Tritransit Area]

I'm not quite sure was possible in my experience!  Those 9800s ran out of Northern (not sure if this is still true - I think some were shifted to Montgomery?), with the "M11 Orion Vs" running out of Gaithersburg.  I'm not sure if Northern connects with any DASH routes either.

Would be a cool thing to see, though - they all sound so different.

[TransitGuru1981X]

I'm not quite sure was possible in my experience!  Those 9800s ran out of Northern (not sure if this is still true - I think some were shifted to Montgomery?), with the "M11 Orion Vs" running out of Gaithersburg.  I'm not sure if Northern connects with any DASH routes either.

Would be a cool thing to see, though - they all sound so different.

But I do know that it would've been possible for a WMATA 5200 NABI artic (M11 engines also, but the Voiths were only on these buses since 2001) to follow a low 9800 WMATA Flxible.

~Ben

[Tristan]

Yea we definitely don't get anywhere close to Northern (thank god)

[orionvii2680]

not a 9800 but a 9700....i'd all the time see a 25b 9700 flex and then see an orion v by dash follow or the other way around.this was back in the day.