26 transit buses up for auction on Long Island

N31569 · January 26, 2017, 05:58:52 PM

http://www.auctionsinternational.com/auction/nassau-mta-9931-9931

Several transit buses available.

Jason

wildbob24 · January 26, 2017, 07:56:47 PM

The Orions all appear to have CNG engines. Not much use to the average Busnut.

Bob

Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM · January 27, 2017, 07:21:58 AM

CNG or not, where else can you buy a bus for $26. You can't buy a tool shed for that price. Just think how many spare bus parts you could store in one of these babies.

N31569 · January 27, 2017, 03:06:10 PM

Yeah , I wasn't sure. There is always a lot of shoolies for auction on this site also.

Jason

chessie4905 · January 27, 2017, 06:19:14 PM

If they don't run, how much is it going to cost for transport?

belfert · January 28, 2017, 06:39:23 PM

The Orion buses are 2004 year which means they were probably replaced with 2016 models. The federal government generally provides money to buy new buses every 12 years.

It seems strange that every single 2004 Orion bus is listed as non-running. I wonder if they just don't want to list them as running to not have any liability? I highly doubt they just happened to have a whole bunch of buses eligible for replacement that all quit running unless they purposely disabled them.

Jeremy · January 29, 2017, 03:46:01 AM

Those Orion buses are monumentally ugly things. What's going-on with those windscreens at different angles for a start? Looks like some clever engineer's solution to a problem that doesn't exist

Jeremy

lostagain · January 29, 2017, 06:57:00 AM

I am thinking, having never driven one or been in one, that the sloped back windshield is to prevent the reflection from the interior lights. That is really bothersome. When I drive a charter, I always turn the lights off at night, and ask the passengers to use the reading lights.

JC

belfert · January 29, 2017, 07:20:36 AM

Quote from: Jeremy on January 29, 2017, 03:46:01 AM
Those Orion buses are monumentally ugly things. What's going-on with those windscreens at different angles for a start? Looks like some clever engineer's solution to a problem that doesn't exist

The Gillig Phantom transit buses also had the driver's windshield slanted back like the Orion.

buswarrior · January 30, 2017, 09:01:59 AM

Reduce glare inside. Check out the old PCC streetcars, GM's fishbowls, and the noted transit buses.

Frankly, the flat windshields on today's buses show the designing engineer as being no friend of the poor smuck who has to drive it in the dark.

Nothing more lovely than a passenger's selfie phone flash going off inside the coach on a mountain pass in a snowstorm... a line of reading lights tracking up the windshield, the glow from the laptops illuminating the faces in the first few rows...

Slope my windshield, PLEASE!?!?!??

happy coaching!
buswarrior