www.nycsubway.org

Neoplan N416/Atlanta and Milwaukee (was Re: Neoplan AN440) (104605)

[ Read Responses | Post a New Response | Return to the Index ]
[ First in Thread | Next in Thread ]

Posted by ctrabs74 on Mon Feb 23 19:28:50 2004, in response to Re: Neoplan AN440,
posted by RTS T80 206 on Mon Feb 23 18:02:28 2004.

Initially, Neoplan entered the US market via a joint venture with Gillig in the late 1970s. I believe one of their first orders was with Santa Clara VTA. Not too long after that, Gillig began producting the Phantom, Neoplan started production of the N416 model described above. Atlanta did have 50 of these buses (N416A; 5001-5050) delivered in 1981. Milwaukee was the only other system that I'm aware of that bought the N416 (3300-3343) that same year.

The only repeat purchase from Atlanta was for 46 AN-460A artics (1611-1656) delivered in 1984. The only time Milwaukee returned to Neoplan was for 72 AN-440A coaches in 1985 (3500-3571) and 57 AN-440A coaches delivered in 1986 (3600-3656).

Ironically enough, recent purchases from both systems were predominantly from New Flyer. Virtually every bus order for Milwaukee since 1996 has come from New Flyer; the same can be said of MARTA from 1990 until 2000 (high-floors in 1990 and 1992; low floors in 1994, 1996, and 2000), though their most recent order was for the Orion VII in 2002.

MARTA roster

Milwaukee County Transit System roster

Responses

Replying to posts on BusTalk are disabled at this time.