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Posted by mci guy on Sun Jun 24 11:19:33 2012 looks like we wnt see these at spring creek before july making them two months late. quite typical of orion. |
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Posted by RailBus63 on Sun Jun 24 18:13:13 2012, in response to cng pilots 570-573, posted by mci guy on Sun Jun 24 11:19:33 2012. Orion is actually way ahead of schedule on the order of 3G CNG's for CNYRTA. |
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Posted by BrianB on Mon Jun 25 12:57:28 2012, in response to cng pilots 570-573, posted by mci guy on Sun Jun 24 11:19:33 2012. Why is the MTA going through on the order when it was meant to evaluate for a larger order? Especially with Orion shutting down their plant.Unless the bodies were already in jigs up in Ontario, I would have cancelled any further orders. Even at that, those buses are going to be mighty failure-prone, as the canadian workers are up in arms about all this. |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Mon Jun 25 13:08:57 2012, in response to Re: cng pilots 570-573, posted by BrianB on Mon Jun 25 12:57:28 2012. This was a separately bid order. This is not part of BT&E. Daimler said that Orion would close after existing orders were fulfilled. |
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Posted by RailBus63 on Mon Jun 25 19:02:28 2012, in response to Re: cng pilots 570-573, posted by BrianB on Mon Jun 25 12:57:28 2012. Even at that, those buses are going to be mighty failure-proneThere is no history of buses that were built prior to a manufacturer shutting down being more failure-prone. The last Flxible Metros off the line performed admirably in Baltimore, and I haven't heard any bad news over the years about the DART RTS's in Dallas that were among the final buses of that model built at the Roswell plant (this was before Millennium came into the picture - all those employees knew is that Nova was stopping the RTS and focusing on the Quebec-built LFS). |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Mon Jun 25 19:40:01 2012, in response to Re: cng pilots 570-573, posted by RailBus63 on Mon Jun 25 19:02:28 2012. True---however, the documented troubles between Orion and the CAW union have forced Queen's Park to intervene. |
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Posted by RailBus63 on Mon Jun 25 20:10:14 2012, in response to Re: cng pilots 570-573, posted by AMoreira81 on Mon Jun 25 19:40:01 2012. None of that means that employees will purposely allow shoddy work to go out the door. |
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