Does anyone have more information on this Delta, BC-based company, the buses it produced, and who else they were operated by? (This company became a truck equipment supplier called Commercial Truck Equipment Co. in 2013, and no longer manufactures its own products, let alone buses) All I know is that: They made cutaways based on vans Their bodies were made of 100% aluminum instead of fiberglass and steel They had two models: the Tundra, a very small bus based on the Mercedes Sprinter chassis and possibly the Ford E350, and the Polar, their most popular model which was a st ..read more

For those who wish to share fictional bus models that they created, here is the place to do it ..read more

I noticed today that ENC has removed their Arrivo and XHF product lines from their website in the last few weeks. This follows the removal of the IC-based Passport-HD line earlier this year. As far as I can tell, this marks the end of US/Canadian high floor transit bus production. As Eldorado re-focuses on the Axess and Ez-Rider II products, the legacy models seem to have passed on without note or ceremony. Nevertheless, I thought the discontinuation of these models ought to be noted amongst those who might care.   I should note that, with some digging, you can still find the web-pag ..read more

Since nobody mentioned this bizarre bus here, I wanted to share this model that nobody heard of that the company by the name of “Transit Bus Manufacturing” who built 20 MRT-30 buses on a Isuzu chassis for the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority in 1985, who was the sole operator while others such as rental car and private tour companies owned that model. TBM’s journey as a bus maker was short lived as that company was sued by General Motors Corporation for allegations of copyright infringement due to the resemblance and appearance of its RTS II buses at the time. Because of the law ..read more

Anyone have access to a software pictured below that I can use to transfer compiled data to a PCMCIA Card ..read more

Good Day  I was wondering if anyone has a Project (.ips) File containing editable data for signs used on Buses in the New York "Greater Metropolitan Area" (the Southern Tier of New York State including the Lower Hudson Valley,  New York City and Long Island)?  Trying to use this IPS Software and build something from scratch is quite nerve-racking and I figure I would have a much better time adapting to it if I had some sort of way to see what a saved project file looks like.    ..read more

Why do trains stay in service so much longer then buses?  ..read more

What if buses were in service for 30 years before being retired ..read more

I am asking this because when I was growing up, most of WMATA's 1990-1995 Flxible Metros, 1992 Orion Vs, and 1995 NABI American Ikarus 436.06 artics already had the newer circular LED taillights and after I was seeing pictures of what they looked like in the original paint scheme before getting overhauled, they had completely different taillights especially the style of the taillight ..read more

This is something I often have been wondering.   So, are transit buses and metrorail more often owned and used by transit agencies than RVs, conversion vans, and minivans ..read more