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Dravo
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USA
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 Posted - 02/21/2008 : 5:59:08 PM
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| What is the difference between a Thomas West Coast ER and the regular Thomas ER? Are they still in production? |
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Lifestar Fe
Top Member
United States
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dem84skeeprollinup
Top Member
USA
888 Posts |
Posted - 02/21/2008 : 11:01:07 PM
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| The oldest westcoaster i have heard of was a 91, and that was on an auction list with no picture. I'm assuming that was the last or towards the last year for them since the last west coast bus co. crown sold its rights that year so it had no competition and faded out. |
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NWCROWN
Advanced Member
USA
461 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2008 : 10:47:49 PM
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Originally posted by Lifestar Fe
The West Coast-ER was available in the 1980s as either tandem or single rear axle. I think it was mainly for California, like Crowns and Gilligs. I am pretty sure that the west-coast-er isn't sold anymore, and Thomas just has the HDX. It might have been available in the 1990s, but I am not sure...
1980s West-Coast-er
http://www.schoolbuscentral.com/gallery/updates/jul05/images/22.jpg
1980s not west coast ER
http://www.schoolbuscentral.com/gallery/updates/aug05/th2_88er_ny.htm
Actually they are common in other states where Crowns and Gilligs were used. Washington has quite a few school districts with these, and they are most often found in districts where a good portion of the fleet once consisted of Gillig or Crown. Longview is a good example. |
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origcharger
Top Member
United States
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Posted - 02/25/2008 : 06:14:35 AM
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| I have seen them in Iowa also. The district I know that had one bought it as they wanted a 90 passenger bus and I am not sure if you could get the ER in greater than 84 passenger. |
Operating; Seven T444Es, One MaxxForce 7, One VT365, Four DT466s, One E-450 6.0 and one Mercedes in a C2. |
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SchoolBusFan
Top Member
USA
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Posted - 02/25/2008 : 1:12:35 PM
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captrodgers
New Member
United States
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Posted - 02/26/2008 : 10:30:49 PM
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| The Westcoaster was a ThomasHDX Safe-t-liner built to California specs. It was built to specifically compete with Crown Supercoach. But for $15,000 cheaper. There were tandem traction drive axles offered to lure mountain districts into buying them for snow conditions. Several tandems were purchased in some of the far northern CA mountain districts. A few ended up in central and southern CA districts. Some of those tandems in the flats had a dummy axle (waste of money in my opinion), but CA directors liked the look of a tandem. They did hold 90 passengers. Tandems were offered all the way through the 80's and 90's. A 1999 Thomas Safe-t-liner demo tandem was equipped with a 3126E CAT and 10 speed reverse shifting transmission(rare). It was later purchased by a school district in the El Dorado County area. |
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Lifestar Fe
Top Member
United States
521 Posts |
Posted - 02/27/2008 : 09:19:57 AM
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Originally posted by captrodgers
A 1999 Thomas Safe-t-liner demo tandem was equipped with a 3126E CAT and 10 speed reverse shifting transmission(rare). It was later purchased by a school district in the El Dorado County area.
Yup...MY highschool!!
Thanks to Todd Pemberton for the photo. |
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bbird66
Top Member
USA
881 Posts |
Posted - 02/27/2008 : 2:48:37 PM
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| Gotta say I've never seen one. I'll be darned. Cool lookin bus for sure. |
Were gonna miss you "Brent"..Good luck in "Heidi land"
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