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Title: Spotted a Buffalo
Post by: bevans6 on May 12, 2010, 04:50:47 AM
Travelling home on the Go train yesterday I spotted a fairly abandoned looking bus that really looked like an early Buffalo GM in a storage yard in Mississauga.  Tall second deck, short front section, not converted, still had all it's windows on the side I could see.  Between Ogden Ave and Dixie, south of the tracks.

Rare to see up here, I have not seen another GM intercity bus in many years, if ever, in this part of the world.  Might have been a movie prop.

Brian
Title: Re: Spotted a Buffalo
Post by: zubzub on May 13, 2010, 12:17:56 PM
Think I saw it a couple of years ago from the TO to Mtl train...

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=mississauga+ogden+ave&sll=43.500752,-79.696198&sspn=0.130992,0.308647&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Ogden+Ave,+Mississauga,+Ontario&ll=43.584526,-79.555054&spn=0,0.001206&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=43.584406,-79.555054&panoid=ZhMcQRL-rJ-yO5JZeaMQJA&cbp=12,340.42,,2,-2.5 (http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=mississauga+ogden+ave&sll=43.500752,-79.696198&sspn=0.130992,0.308647&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Ogden+Ave,+Mississauga,+Ontario&ll=43.584526,-79.555054&spn=0,0.001206&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=43.584406,-79.555054&panoid=ZhMcQRL-rJ-yO5JZeaMQJA&cbp=12,340.42,,2,-2.5)

Getting too good at this....I think I may have a problem.
Title: Re: Spotted a Buffalo
Post by: bevans6 on May 13, 2010, 12:36:06 PM
My word, you are good at that!  I found it, got the satellite picture, but didn't think of looking for a street view.  I used to live a few blocks from there, on Ogden ave.

Brian
Title: Re: Spotted a Buffalo
Post by: zubzub on May 13, 2010, 01:01:54 PM
You must be younger than me....Voyageur ran them in the 70's .  Bufs are my 1st and best intercity memories as a kid traveling from Ottawa to TO, Mtl and NY.
Title: Re: Spotted a Buffalo
Post by: bevans6 on May 13, 2010, 01:53:19 PM
All over eastern Canada (I lived in Ottawa) in the 70's, in MC-7's and MC-8's.  I well remember loading them with luggage and band instruments, and watching the driver stir the 4 speed Spicer,  we would cheer when he ground the gears...    ;D

Brian