I took this photograph inside the museum bus garage in August of 2006. This is a potograph of one of the everyday details nobody ever seemed to notice when these buses were in daily service. This is a builders plate on a 1965 Flxible Transit Coach. This company was located in Loudonville Ohio. The Chicago Transit Authority used these Flxible new look "Fishbowl" windshield models, until they were retired in 1986. I rode these as a boy growing up in the windy city. These were the "Last" CTA Buses with "Soft Vinyl Seats", as Vandals and a somewhat less than kind society caused the CTA to standardize on hard plastic seats with rubber pads.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Flxible Coach Company builders plate. 1965 CTA Flxible transit coach. The Illinois Railway Museum. Union Illinois USA. August 2006.
I took this photograph inside the museum bus garage in August of 2006. This is a potograph of one of the everyday details nobody ever seemed to notice when these buses were in daily service. This is a builders plate on a 1965 Flxible Transit Coach. This company was located in Loudonville Ohio. The Chicago Transit Authority used these Flxible new look "Fishbowl" windshield models, until they were retired in 1986. I rode these as a boy growing up in the windy city. These were the "Last" CTA Buses with "Soft Vinyl Seats", as Vandals and a somewhat less than kind society caused the CTA to standardize on hard plastic seats with rubber pads.
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