NABI order scrapped, WMATA to resume Xcelisor purchases in 2015 and beyond.

[Chargerdodge9]

 Just found out about this on youtube and later confirmed on Wiki that these 2014 BRT 42s will indeed be the last of their kind. After the 105 buses are in, WMATA will switch back over to New Flyer Industries. I guess this will be the last New Flyer Break for quite sometime. 80 new XDE40s will be delivered next year with options to replace more Orion Vs (probably the 2000 units). As for the C40LFs and AN460s, they'll get replaced by XN40s and XDE60s respectively. You know, funny thing is that I predicted months ago that this would happen at some point, but I figured that NABI would at least complete the hybrid and maybe artic portions of the order while New Flyer does the CNGs. Didn't think this would happen so early on. I guess that this also means that ARTranist is probably going to get some Xcelsior XN35 CNGs or Gillg Advantage CNGs because of this. They just got some new NABIs the other day too as I personally reported last weekend. I suppose the next round of XDE40s will be numbered #7273 to #7352.

[Chargerdodge9]

This may also be related to the fact that WMATA is buying about 15 or so Xcelsiors for DC Circulator.