WE'RE BACK

The New Jersey Transit Bus Fan page is back after quite some absence. Your humble webmaster needed some fresh air after fifteen years of sucking diesel fumes. But I'm back, digital camera at the ready, and we'll be back snapping those NJT buses again.

What's changed since we've taken our hiatus?

• The 3000's are hanging on by a thread. Bus 3000 is now NJT's oldest bus (though some subcontractors still have some MC-9's hanging around) and it's soon to be headed to the scrapper. NJT will soon be purchasing a new brace of RTS suburban buses from the company that's taken over from Nova Bus, which I believe is called Milennium Transit.
  
• The new MCI cruisers have been a big hit, so much so that NJT has leased 20 older 102DL3 units from MCI and has ordered another 68 new buses. The leased cruisers, numbered 7101-7120, have gone into service as of last Saturday. I myself saw 7120 this morning running the 559. Trevor Logan sent me some snaps of one of the lease units which I'll share with you in a day or so.
  
• NJT has taken delivery of all the Neoplan artics. We will have serials soon as I can get them from Charlie Bailey or someone.
  
• NJT has rehabbed some of the 1000 and 2500 series Nova Buses with updated destination signs and a new paint job similar to that of the MCI cruisers, with the arcing tri-color that has replaced the angled tri-stripe as NJT's logo.

We're thrilled to have the opportunity to devote some time to this enterprise again and we hope to be able to bring you what you, the NJT bus maven, truly crave!