OC Transpo | Detroit Diesel 6v92 Compilation
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- čas přidán 3. 02. 2011
- A compilation of some of my favorite OC Transpo Classic and D40HF videos, all buses in these videos have Detroit Diesel 6v92 engines and Allison V730 or V731 transmissions. All clips were taken between 2008 and 2010.
Love that sound as they take off!
I agree
I remember when I was a child, when my mom would take me on the bus and it was a fun experience. I remember the oldest bus I was on was the one with the pink leathery seats with forward-slanted windows. Those were really nice days.
Septimius Severus I miss the OC Fishbowls too!
Josh Robillard I have sadly never gotten to ride one. The closest thing I've gotten was a Classic.
0:50 the sound of my childhood
Mine too !!!
Same thing for me lol!
Same here
Same here
That bus never got stuck in snow.
I was there back in 2008...I even rode in an OC Transpo articulated bus that took me from Billings Bridge Station to what was then Scotiabank Place and back, but it wasn't powered by a two-stroke Detroit...it was powered by a four-stroke Cummins! I sorely miss the two-stroke Detroit-powered transit buses, folks!
Sounds like one of the 400 series specials. I think 405 or 406?
That classic @ 3:00 OMG!!!! reminds me of the MCI Classics we had here in NYC
Wow
This reminds me of the old San Francisco transbay terminal when Oakland's AC Transit New Flyer buses of that type would sound through the underpasses.
Those buses were so comfortable, always fell asleep on em as a kid
I miss the Detroit busses my city ran. I grew up riding MCI Classics and GM New Looks. Nothing like sitting in the back on a winter's day over the engine, the heat and purr of the DD 2-stroke idle would lul you off into sleepy land, then nothing but excitement as the driver left the transfer station! These days with all the Cummins ISL-powered New Flyers you can't tell if that's a bus or just another truck coming down the street, with that empty resonating boom, no character or charm at all.
Yeah really great footage! I got to ride today maybe for the last time, STM's 15-140, the last CLASSIC in service. A great 2 hour ride even with traffic!
The 6V92TA-equipped buses would use the electronically-controlled V731 transmission. I'm talking about the MCI Classics and the New Flyer D40HFs.
I APPROVE OF THIS!! #9320 and 9205 sounded beautiful taking off! So nice and calm sounding....put me into a dreamworld for a moment!
I love it when #9321 has the nicest acceleration, 1:07 minutes lol!
At least STO still has these
Maybe on the property still, but not in regular service, perhaps. They ran them for quite a long time.
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That 9320 sounded really good. My favorite was 9322.
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i miss those buses y dud city council scrap them? our city iz scrued up
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Honestly, it made absolutely no sense why OC Transpo retired the 1993 Classics early. They should have left them in service until 2013. Some were still in great shape. D40s were getting corroded so it made sense to retire them, while the 1989 and 1991 model Classics reached the end of their 18 year lifespan and surpassed it.
I don't believe that non-accessibility is a good enough reason to retire high floor buses. If that's the case, make them school-route only. Students that have various impairments usually take vans home anyway.
I also think that the Orion Vs were retired a tad bit too early. Some retirements were justified because some were corroded, but for the others in great shape, there was no point in retiring.
They probably couldn't justify spending the money to rehab and reinforce buses that they would eventually retire, especially with the (delayed) opening of the light rail. The Classics could have held on for a bit longer, but the Orion Vs had severe rust and corrosion issues.
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I thought the 1991 and 1992 Orion Vs were the ones that had severe corrosion, no? They underwent rebuild around 1999-2000 and started being gradually retired in 2005.
Some 1997-1998 Orion Vs seemed to have a rebuild done in early 2010 as well. It just didn't seem like a good idea to junk them so soon after rebuild. Apparently these also had corrosion issues but to a lesser degree.
I think most of those buses are scrapped. Although, I did see this or a GM Classic at the Ottawa junk yard by Wakley.
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There used to be an MCI Classic in Walkley but it disappeared early last year. I was last there in December 2017 and it was great to see a Classic again even in the sad condition it was in.
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@Camarohill2 Probably because they are not wheelchair-accessible, non-air conditioned, and they are beyond their service life and the city did not want to renew their registration with MTO for another several years. I believe all that is left are the Inveros (4200-4500 series), Orion VIs (4000-4100 series), the newer articulateds (6400-6600 series), the Orion VII hybrids (5000 series) and the three double deckers (1201-1203).
And now, Ottawa is full of double-deckers... I have photos of the newest ones plus 1201-1203.
they sound like rts buses
And Flxible Metros too 👍
GO DETROIT!
These oldies took a lickin', but they're STILL tickin'! I hate the fact Pittsburgh finally got rid of their last few. The new ones they're using are GARBAGE. Their big red rover (big wrecker) is getting a workout hauling new DEAD buses across the city to their maintenance facility
Hey, do you like buses? :)
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Ok...
How does the city afford the fuel bill? Detroit's were mainly used for long distance coach work here In Australia and never chosen for transit work due to high fuel consumption.
Probably cheap Canadian petrol...much like the U.S. Not nearly as cheap as U.S. oil, but close enough...oh, and the taxes!!
Cleanairbus in the early nineties when Sydney still had a lot of small private bus companies doing route work, I once caught a GM with locally built body work (Domino Hedges) of 1978 with Allison three speed slush box. A very rare case of a Detroit two stroke used as a normal route bus. I heard the drivers nicknamed it the 'hotrod'. It was the only bus I ever came across with a GM badge in the front.
It's so interesting to see that, because most of the US and Canada's normal bus routes in the nineties had buses that used Detroit Diesel two-stroke engines (6v71, 8v71, and 6v92) with 3-speed Allison transmissions (usually a V730 or V731). You had a few instances of HT-series transmissions, but for most properties, it was either Detroit Diesel or the rare Cummins powerplants.
Cleanairbus I heard a sound recording online, of a 1994 New Flyer with Detroit mated to a four speed ZF ecomat transmission and I was blown away. Very impressed!!
In Australia we are used to hearing those gearboxes in various Volvo, MAN and Mercedes heavy duty buses but never with a DD!
I used to drive a MAN rear engine bus (Seattle ran very similar models from MAN) that got re-gearboxed from a sluggish but smooth 3 speed Voith to an Allison Word Series 4 speed and it totally transformed the bus's performance. Drivers who normally loathed the things (I liked them) would clamour to take it out. It drove beautifully.
I forgot to mention one bus company in Sydney's outskirts had a fleet of 1979/80 rear engine Leyland B21s powered by Detroit 6-71 with Allison three speeds. They had been retired early in Perth due to high fuel consumption and were bought second hand on the cheap (I heard).
Here is a link to a short clip I took in 1996, of various Leyland buses with that operator, and at about 40 seconds you see the DD powered B21 (all too brief -I accidentally bumped the pause button on the camera !).
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these busses do not have 6v92s in them, they are 6V71Ns with V731A torque converters and some have turbochargers with intercooling
Umm, no, these buses all have 6v92TA engines with V730 or V731 transmissions. OC Transpo did have 6v71 Classics, but they were numbered in the 8700s, GMs from 1987. There are no 1987s pictured here. None of their D40s had 6v71s at all. They are 1990s and 1992s, also pictured here.
i stand corrected
, i should have specified none of the GM built classics had 6V92s
I hope here all gone....horrible polluter....all electric every route
Bob Curdo they have been all gone since 2010. Though your electric bus comment is an oxymoron because not only do you have to manufacture another bus but you also have to add a lithium battery which is mined in South Africa. also what gives you the power to charge it... Fossil fuels that generate electricity... The truth is if you're all about the environment, use what you have for as long as you can
Bob Curdo a new bus does not just appear, you still have to manufacture it... which uses a lot of energy... that comes from fossil fuel
Bob Curdo: Fuck off
As long as remember, these buses will live forever in our memories as well as our hearts.