Bus Sounds and Videos

[WES]

Actually a slight change to the 9600s was that 9652 had, I might say an experimental DD50 with an Allison tranny.

I say experimental because that was the only bus to have one. 

[Tristan]

Okay, yea no 89 Gilligs or old DASH Orion Is -- I do have one of 26, however.

[Tritransit Area]

Actually a slight change to the 9600s was that 9652 had, I might say an experimental DD50 with an Allison tranny.

I say experimental because that was the only bus to have one.

Did that bus perform better than the other repowered 9600s?

[Flxible]

I know this is an ancient post, but here goes:

One noteable difference between Metros A and B is the destination sign. The B series accomodated a larger electronic destination sign, while the A series accomodated a much smaller sign.

Also, Metro B's built after 1988 had a flat rear interior wall which NONE of the A's had.

Last thing to note. The A series was built untill around late 1986. After that untill 1992 was the B series.

Here's my personal observations on the above: I own a Metro that came from TTA in Huntington, WV (built 2/90), and it still bears the slightly angled rear interior wall, a la the early Metro and Grumman 870.  However, at the CC&T we have an ex-GRTC Metro (built 8/90), and it has the flat rear wall you mentioned.  Also, we have a 1987 Metro at CC&T (Blacksburg Transit no. 2616), which has the same size destination sign as the 1986 WMATA units shown in this post.  BT's Metros were built 6/86 (Nos. 2601-2603, 2611-2613) and 1/87 (2604-2606, 2614-2616).  From what I recall, there were no visual differences between each group of buses.