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ripta42 · Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 3:29 pm Post subject: Bee-Line RTS numbering

This photo shows four ex-Bee-Line RTSes purchased by Entertainment Express, which ran a bar-hopping shuttle in downtown Providence about five years ago.

Production records indicate that Bee-Line's RTSes were originally numbered 101-205, but these are 210, 206, 217, and what appears to be 216. Were these renumbered, or did they come from somewhere else?

RailBus63 · Moderator Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 1063

According to a Westchester County roster in the Nov-Dec. 1994 issue of Motor Coach Today, quite a few of the RTS's were indeed renumbered. These buses were originally:

206 - ex 200
210 - ex 196
216 - ex 105
217 - ex 104

No reason is given for the renumbering. I'll post the full list later.

Jim

ripta42 · Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 2:18 pm Post subject:

Thanks!

RailBus63 · Moderator Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 1063

Here is the full list of renumbered RTS's (per the Motor Coach Today list) -

206 s/n 004 ex-200
207 s/n 013 ex-199
208 s/n 012 ex-198
209 s/n 008 ex-194
210 s/n 010 ex-196
211 s/n 009 ex-195
212 s/n 007 ex-190
213 s/n 006 ex-189
214 s/n 020 ex-204
215 s/n 019 ex-106
216 s/n 018 ex-105
217 s/n 017 ex-104
218 s/n 016 ex-103
219 s/n 015 ex-102
220 s/n 014 ex-101