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Norcal Expressexpress the First GGT OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BUS FANS NorCalNorCal ExpressExpress The First Winter 2011 Issue 08 this issue County Transit-First 18 months P.1 4th Anniversary Excursion P.2 Bus is a Four Letter Word P.11 Asian Vacation P.14 & #6642 a 1951 GM TDH3612 still in San Jose City In the late 1960's, efforts to create a publicly Northern California Lines (SJCL) "fruit salad" colors working the owned transit system centered in San Jose, former SJCL route 5 enroute to the terminus at Bus Fans CA failed twice when the Santa Clara County 17th & Hedding Streets. The destination sign still Est. January 2007 voters turned down proposals in 1969 and reads 17th & Rosa with Rosa being the name of the street before it was changed to Hedding. again in 1970. Jim Husing Collection Website www.norcalbusfans.com Availability of state gasoline tax money resulted in passage of a third referendum was to provide a reasonable standard of bus service to the County with the meager Contact Us creating the Santa Clara County Transit District (SCCTD) in November 1972. San aging bus fleet acquired. [email protected] Jose City Lines operating 54 buses on seven local routes was to form the core of the new The cost to the County's taxpayers for acquiring the rolling stock, routes, and system. Peerless Stages contributed eight NorCal Express some assets of the three companies was aging buses and seven suburban Is the official newsletter of the reported to have been in the neighborhood Northern California Bus Fans and is routes. Palo Alto Transit Lines at the of three million dollars. published bi-monthly and County's northern border provided ten buses distributed free of charge. and five local routes. Palo Alto Transit Lines THE BEGINNING FLEET buses were owned by the City of Palo Alto, Editor: Richard Silagi but operated by Peninsula Charter Lines in San Jose City Lines (SJCL) fleet turned over Contributors: Jim Husing, East Palo Alto. to the SCCTD consisted of; Andy Smith, Arnold Bedak, Peto Ho, ten 1948 GM TDH4507's (6501-6510), how- Michael Strauch, Ty Angel The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors ever 6505 was determined to not be oper- were to oversee the bus operation with able and never saw service for the District, James T. Pott picked to be the District's To subscribe to this e-newsletter, two 1959 GM TDH4512's (6511-6512), five just send an e-mail with your name assistant executive officer of the new bus 1960 GM TDH4517's (6513-6517), five and e-mail address to: operation. Pott's background had been in 1962 GM TDH4517's (6518-6522), five [email protected] Public Works with the County. The immediate challenge for the bus operation (Continued on page 5) NorCal Express Winter 2011 newsletter. If you would like to submit an article for an From the Editor’s Desk upcoming issue, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Also, while we may be called the Northern California bus fans, we Happy Anniversary to the NorCal Bus Fans! Last month we have members from all over who have varied interest. The celebrated our fourth anniversary. I would like to take the articles do not have to be about California. I am open to opportunity to thank all the members who together help just about anything as long as it has to do with buses or make this a fun group to belong to. Hopefully as time transit. progresses we never lose sight of the original vision for this group and that was simply to have fun with buses. If we I would also like to thank Ty Angel for stepping up to the are not having fun, we are doing something wrong. plate and taking the initiative to plan our next excursion. Ty has been working with Alan Fong on a I am very pleased that several people responded to my Sacramento excursion. Visits to several properties are in plea for articles for the newsletter. This issue features two the works and more info on the trip will be posted on the of those articles, one by Arnold Bedak about his love affair NorCal Bus Fans e-mail group and on the excursion page of with Muni Macks and the other by Peter Ho about his visit the website as the details are finalized. The trip is to Asia last summer. A few other people have articles in the scheduled for April 23rd, 2011, so mark your calendars and works for future issues as well. For those of you who have stay tuned for more details. already stepped up and offered to help, thank you very much. Your assistance is greatly appreciated. The more people we have submitting articles, the more variety we Richard Silagi will have which will make for a more interesting After meeting up at BART we headed for San Francisco. Our first 4th Anniversary Excursion by Richard Silagi stop of the day was San Francisco Muni’s new “Metro East” light rail facility. NorCal member Cam Beach, who is currently on the The NorCal Bus Fans celebrated their fourth anniversary by having SFMTA board of directors, had arranged for a tour of the facility an excursion to San Francisco on January 22, 2011. Once again the for us. The highlight of the visit was getting chance to see the weather gods were on our side and provided us with another newly restored car #1 which was Muni’s first street car when it absolute gorgeous day even though it was the middle of winter. started service back in 1912. The car was restored in preparation for Muni’s 100th Anniversary celebration in 2012. The car is The excursion started at the El Cerrito del Norte BART station in gorgeous and looks brand new. Richmond. Since I do not keep really accurate attendance records, I cannot say for sure but I think this was the largest excursion for After the tour we all boarded the buses and headed to the area of us so far with about forty three attendees and seven buses! Buses AT&T Park for a photo session with the buses and then lunch at the in attendance were Steve Souza’s PD4106, Josh Thurman’s many nearby restaurants. We took about an hour break for lunch. ex-TriMet Flxible new look, Ty Angel’s ex-San Diego Transit Some also used this time to visit the nearby Caltrain station as well Fishbowl, Charles Williams’ Crown school bus and Terry Thatcher’s as getting photos of buses and streetcars in the area. ex-Golden Gate Transit Fishbowl. Tony Marquart also joined us with his ex-SF Muni bicentennial Fishbowl for a portion of the trip After lunch we all boarded the buses and headed for the new in the morning. Temporary Transbay Terminal facility. On the way we passed by www.norcalbusfans.com Page 2 NorCal Express Winter 2011 the remains of the old Transbay Terminal. While at the Temporary Transbay Terminal, many we spent a fair amount of time photographing and videotaping the buses that were coming and going. Some people also boarded Josh Thurman’s bus for a quick visit to the Market Street Railway store/museum a few blocks away to do a little bit of shopping. Next we headed east across the Bay Bridge to Treasure Island. We made a stop in front of the old Pan American Airways seaplane terminal on the island for some photos. People also took this opportunity to ride on some of the different buses on short trips around the island. Once again I think it is safe for me to say that everyone had a good time. I cannot thank the bus owners enough for bringing out their buses for us to enjoy. Also I would like to thank everyone for being generous in their donations to help pay for fuel. While it is very difficult to cover all of the fuel cost when we have this many buses, what was collected was definitely able to ease the burden on the bus owners. Starting out the excursion on the streets of Richmond. Richard Silagi Thank you again to everyone who helped make this another successful excursion. Cruising down Mission Street past what remains of the old Transbay (Above) Breda LRV being service on a hydraulic lift inside the Metro East Terminal. Michael Strauch maintenance facility. Richard Silagi (Below) Newly restored Muni car #1 being inspected by the NorCal Bus Fans inside one of the service bays at Metro East. Michael Strauch Four of our groups buses lined up at the new loading bays at the Temporary Transbay Terminal. Michael Strauch www.norcalbusfans.com Page 3 NorCal Express Winter 2011 (Above) Josh Thurman’s Flxible at the Transbay Terminal. Richard Silagi (Right) Buses lined up in front of the old Pan American Airways seaplane terminal on Treasure Island. Michael Strauch At the end of the day, the buses lined up for one last photo session with the new Bay Bridge construction in the background. Richard Silagi DON’T FORGET TO VISIT THE NORCAL BUS FANS PHOTO ARCHIVES! The archives currently has over 8,000 photos of buses from over 500 different bus companies from 34 states plus Canada and Mexico! Thanks to the generosity of our members who are willing to share their collections, this archive is growing all the time. If you have not yet checked it out, just go to our website at www.norcalbusfans.com and click on the photo archives. www.norcalbusfans.com Page 4 NorCal Express Winter 2011 Early January 1973 two ex-SJCL TDH4517's and an ex-Peerless Stages TDH4506 at the garage on San Carlos Street in San Jose.
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