The age of Coronavirus may not be good for traveling, but it is good for emptying out the “photo queue” of pictures I would like to post and share here on my site.  With this update, I believe that nearly all the transit photos I took during 2019 and intended to post to Oren’s Transit Page are in fact posted!

Last March, I was able to attend Orioles spring training in Sarasota, and also spent time in Tampa on that trip as well.  I had never been to the west coast of Florida before so it was interesting to see what the transit operations on the Florida Suncoast are like.  With this site update, you can too, as there are over 30 photos from this area now on the site!  You can find the new galleries for HART (including the TECO Streetcar Line), PSTA, MCAT, and SCAT in the Tampa & Florida Suncoast section.  (How’s that for some agency alphabet soup?)

In June, a planned trip to Boston became a road trip due to a flight cancelled following thunderstorms.  Since our return trip was on my birthday, Mrs. Oren’s Transit Page indulged me and permitted a stop at the Shore Line Trolley Museum in East Haven, CT.  (We had lunch at a favorite restaurant of hers in New Haven as well).  

Throughout the summer, many transit fans’ attention was turned to Alexandria, VA, where DASH acquired Neoplan articulated buses from Bee Line in Westchester County, NY in order to supplement service during WMATA’s Platform Improvement Project on the Blue and Yellow Lines.  WMATA, DASH, and contracted tour bus operators operated the various bus bridges that replaced Metrorail service.  I ventured out one day to photograph the shuttle buses and ride one of the former Bee Line Neoplans, and those photos are also now online.  While this may be the “highlight” of the newest additions to the site from the DC area, there are a total of 15 new DASH photos, 6 new ART photos, and over 50 new WMATA photos.

Finally, in November, I was in Pittsburgh for the second time (my first trip was in 2015).  I didn’t take as many transit rides while I was there as I had planned, but I did take about 50 photos of PAT buses and light rail vehicles that are now on the website, including some of their buses decorated for the Christmas holiday season and the Monongahela Incline, which I rode for the first time.

You may have noticed that I wrote that nearly all the photos from 2019 are now online, so you may also be wondering what is still to come.  In August, I visited both Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon, so photos of the transit operations in those places (did you know the National Park Service operates a fleet of New Flyer C40LF and C40LFR buses on the South Rim of the canyon?), as well as many photos from a city taken over the course of many years that you would have expected to be on my site already in light of its proximity to Oren’s Transit Page Headquarters will be in the next site update.  Stay tuned!

Here is the complete list of pages with new photos in this update:

• Washington, DC & Surrounding Area
  • WMATA
    • WMATA Metrorail Rehabilitated Breda 2000/3000 Series Cars
    • WMATA Metrorail Alstom 6000 Series Cars
      
    • WMATA Metrorail Kawasaki 7000 Series Cars
    • WMATA Metrobus 2000 Orion V Buses
    • WMATA Metrobus New Flyer C40LF & C40LFR Buses
    • WMATA Metrobus New Flyer DE40LFA Buses
    • WMATA Metrobus New Flyer XDE40 Buses
    • WMATA Metrobus New Flyer XDE60 Buses
    • WMATA Metrobus New Flyer XN40 Buses
    • WMATA Metrobus 2014 NABI 42-BRT Hybrid Buses
  • DC Circulator
  • DASH (Alexandria, VA)
  • Arlington Transit (ART)
• Pittsburgh
  • Port Authority Buses
  • Pittsburgh Light Rail
  • Monongahela Incline
  • Mid Mon Valley Transit Authority
• Connecticut
  
  • Connecticut Transit (CTtransit)
  • Shore Line Trolley Museum
• Tampa Bay & Florida Suncoast
  • Hillsborough Area Regional Transit (HART) Buses
  • TECO Line Streetcar System
  • Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA)
  • Manatee County Area Transit (MCAT)
  • Sarasota County Area Transit (SCAT)