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Bus Photo of the Month: April 2024

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New Flyer XN60 18711

Location: Las Vegas Boulevard at Fremont Street, August 16, 2019
Operator of Vehicle: Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada
Date of Photo: August 16, 2019

Given the amount of time tourists spend on the Strip in Las Vegas, it is reasonable for the double decker buses that operate along “the Duece” route along the city’s most famous street to be the bus model that transit fans associate with Sin City.  In fact, Las Vegas is one of six transit agencies in the United States to operate double decker buses.  However, the majority of the Las Vegas bus fleet is made up of New Flyer buses with just a single level.  Although many visitors to Las Vegas never venture far from the Strip (if at all), Las Vegas has one of the most extensive “night bus” networks in the United States due to the 24 hour nature of the casinos and hospitality industry.  

For more photos of RTC Transit buses in Las Vegas, please click here.  

Enough Teases, Here’s What’s New and Updated for the Start of 2021!

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Ventura County Railway No. 2
Anyone who knows where I’ve traveled or has visited the site with some frequency over the years may have noticed that the Bus Photo of the Month for January 2021 was from a city that had not been included on Oren’s Transit Page before, and that I’ve been highlighting a number of new website sections over the past few weeks. 

The biggest and most noteworthy additions are the brand new sections for Baltimore, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, and Austin.  As I noted in a recent post, there was a certain amount of irony to the fact I grew up 40 miles from Baltimore and am an avid Orioles fan, yet the city had not been featured on this site until recently.  Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, and Austin were destinations that I traveled to in late 2019 and early 2020 before the Covid-19 pandemic, and I am thankful to have had the opportunity to make those trips when I did.  

I also took advantage of some time I had recently to move some photos that had been on the Uncaptioned Photos page for quite awhile and put them in more appropriate places on the website, most notably, the photos of the Pikes Peak Cog Railway now have their own page.  Perhaps you found the new material on your own, but if not, here is the full listing of where new photos were recently added to the site, with new sections highlighted in bold and italics.