CyRide - Last Trip of Bus 892 - March 5, 1987

This was the first of the "Last Run" videos and we were pretty simple in documenting the final trip. Subsequent videos in this series were a bit more silly and creative.
Bus 892 was one of four GMC TDH5303 buses we bought from Chicago RTA. It was originally purchased by Suburban Transit System in Oak Lawn, IL in 1966. The buses had almost new motors with less than 20,000 miles on them. RTA had a bus crisis in the early 80s and had to rebuild some worn out buses. 893 had a very weak transmission, obvious when it pulls out from the garage. Bodies were in terrible condition. We took the motors out and put them in other buses that we had bought from California that had good bodies and weak motors. Another video "This Old Bus" shows some of the decay in the structures of these buses.