Check out Trevor Logan's Transitalk page for the two new prototypes - Neoplan artic 9501 and MCI D4000H 4004. (We'll get pix of em soon.) Both buses feature Cesar Vergara's wildest paint designs yet. The MCI has "It's Electric!" written on the beltline at the rear of the bus.

Four of today's buses are now in the Gallery: AL5058, 606, 7077 and 8321.

Here are the display units from today's Hoboken Festival.

AL5058 - NJT Access Link/Atlantic Paratrans - 2002 Ford/Startrans - Serial 2HA35979
L627 - PSCT/NJT - 1957 GM PD-4104 - Serial 2281
E313 - PSCT - 1951 GM TDH-4509 - Serial 1901
606 - NJT Red & Tan Tours - 2001 Blue Bird Transhuttle - Serial 1F201415
2564 - NJT - 2000 Nova Bus T60206 - Serial YR834654
7077 - NJT - 2000 MCI 102D3 - Serial YP053261
1922 - NJT - 2002 Roadeo Winner Ed Negron - 1994 Flxible 40102-6C8 - Serial RD104661
7777 - NJT - 2002 Roadeo Winner Al Laning - 2001 MCI D4000 - Serial 1P053685
8321 - NJT - 2002 Roadeo Winner Joe Grandioso - 2002 MCI D4500 - Serial 2P055237
NJT Police Bus - 1981 Flxible 40102-6-1 - Serial BD093977 (orig. PA1158)

Pictures as soon as they come out of the Mrs.' camera.

Just got back from Hoboken Festival. Besides the advertised units, NJT also had on display an Access Link bus, the historic E313 and L627 units from Public Service, the three Roadeo winners' units, CNG bus 7077, and one of the 30-foot Novas. Pictures and more specific information later.

Don't forget, everyone, tomorrow is the Try Transit Festival in Hoboken. This year, Try Transit combines with the Hoboken Music & Art Festival to provide continuous musical entertainment on three stages located along Washington Street, headlined by the Tom Tom Club (members of Talking Heads) at 4:45 p.m. on the First Street Stage. Bus fans will want to stick close to Hoboken Terminal where at least a new MCI D-series Cruiser will be on display along with a now-retired Newark City Subway PCC car. It runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. - come on out!

Also, check out the D series roster. Some new private carrier D4500's have been delivered including the first new cruiser deliveries for Coach USA/Hudson Bus Transportation (Short Line).

Cesar Vergara, who as Chief Designer for NJ Transit is the only such person in that capacity for a transit agency, is profiled in the October 2002 Trains magazine. His work as an industrial designer harkens back to the days of Raymond Loewy, who created memorable railroad pieces (the GG-1 electric) and buses (GM's PD4501 "Scenicruiser" for Greyhound). Vergara designed the General Electric Genesis locomotives and as chief designer for NJT, holds sway over all aspects of the company's design components, from the rolling stock to the stations (hey, Cesar, how about freshening up those staid looking schedules?). The article makes note of Vergara's disdain for the long-standing NJT chevron ("ached of 1979... it looked like John Travolta designed it") and his attempts to put a fresh image on NJT's livery ("...are orange, magenta and blue bad colors for a transit agency? Absolutely not...they needed to be revisited"). Shown in the article is a new 4600-series ALP-46 electric locomotive that features a modified NJT logo, elongated to the length of the locomotive, but as a narrow strip with the colors separated by moire lines and retaining the 55-degree angles of the original logo.