BSRA Farewell to the Trackless Trolleys Fantrip Part 2 | MBTA Dual Mode, RTS, and AN440LF ETB Ride
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- Опубликовано: 25 фев 2022
- Here is part two of the fantrip video! The BSRA hosted a fantrip on February 19th, 2022 which used a DMA AN460LF, AN440LF ETB and an RTS to commemorate the farewell to the Trackless Trolleys. This video covers the first half of the trip, starting from the North Cambridge Carhouse to Aberdeen Avenue to Watertown.
I also wanted to give a big thank you to the Boston Street Railway Association for all their hard work into making this fantrip such a memorable and amazing event. The drivers and the organizers did a really good job and their work does not go under appreciated.
I hope you enjoy the video!
Stay safe everyone!
the AN440LF ETB to the AN460LF Dual mode silver line: "Hey, those are my wires!"
Hopefully a museum can preserve these buses
Nice video
Thanks!
How Often do you operate this? I'm From Chicago and I want to come visit and ride it.
Sad to see them all go.
What a waste and missed opportunity for a 'once in a lifetime' video. Who wants to see the stores and passing buildings out of the side windows on the dual-mode? Somebody should have chased the coach behind it in a vehicle. I don't want to see the passing scenery, that will always be there. Duh !! And why weren't the trolley poles of the dual-mode put up on the wires at every possible opportunity? I see an awful lot of video with the dual mode running with the poles down. Any bus could do that. How sad. Why did they bother bringing the dual-mode if not to run it on the wires? Who organized this trip?
And by the way, don't the Neoplan trackless trolleys have 'off-wire' capability? Why did the coach have to be pushed by a truck? How many Neoplan trackless trolleys does the MBTA own? What year were they built? How old are they? If they don't have 'off-wire' capability, it's hard to believe the MBTA ordered them that way.
The DMA had its wires up quite frequently on the trip, but it kept dewiring so they had to lower the poles often. One reason why I recorded the scenery is because it’s rare to see the scenery while riding an RTS or Dual Mode, since RTSs haven’t operated on the 71/73 for 5+ years and Dual Modes haven’t operated on the 71/73 since they were new and they tested the wires. The T owns 28 2004 AN440LF ETBs and they can only go off wire for a very short period of time, so that’s why it had to be pushed.
It’s literally a bus
The T should put it’s only RTS into service at South Hampton garage.