Bus Photo of the Month: August 2023

Gillig Advantage/CNG 1106

Location: Sandoval Street between West San Francisco Street and Grant Avenue
Operator of Vehicle: Santa Fe Trails
Date of Photo: August 3, 2018

Five years ago, I visited New Mexico.  Depending on how you count going through a state on Amtrak, it may have been my first visit to the state.  Less ambiguous is that it was the first time I photographed transit within the state.  The state capital, New Mexico, is not the largest city in the state but it does have some public transit and has the distinction of being one of the first transit systems in the United States to have a fleet powered solely by compressed natural gas.  I like the light blue accents in the agency paint scheme, and finding opportunities to photograph the buses with the local architecture in the background was a fun activity during the single day I spent in Santa Fe.

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