Finally, some M-11 action on an Orion V!! Here's bus #5557 of the Montgomery County Ride ON. This bus has a Cummins M-11 Plus engine and Voith D863.3 transmission
Yep, and I recorded one (on audio) around the same time he posted the comment. Now if Ride On decides to give them new Allison transmissions......I'll be in D.C. in a hot minute!!
With nearly all Flxibles extinct in DC (almost all the Cummins powered Flxibles are gone, so to say), I would like to please see you make more videos of these particular Orion Vs (#5550-5566, 5572-5579) in the near future.
Cummins-engined Orion V's in the Montgomery County Ride-On fleet:
5550-5566 - 1996 05.503 (M11 CELECT Plus with Voith D863.3)
5567-5569 (later 5997-5999) - 1996 05.503 CNG (L10G Bravo with ZF Ecomat 5HP-590; transmission may have been changed to a Voith D864.3 at mid-life, not sure)
Wow she sounds kinda like an L10 Flxible Metro
8v71buses 5 months ago
@Bastranz
Yep, and I recorded one (on audio) around the same time he posted the comment. Now if Ride On decides to give them new Allison transmissions......I'll be in D.C. in a hot minute!!
MetroLinerXLZ 1 year ago
@ClassicTVFan82 Dunno if you found this out, but the 35ft CNGs retained their ZF transmissions.
Bastranz 1 year ago
With nearly all Flxibles extinct in DC (almost all the Cummins powered Flxibles are gone, so to say), I would like to please see you make more videos of these particular Orion Vs (#5550-5566, 5572-5579) in the near future.
ClassicTVMan81 2 years ago
Cummins-engined Orion V's in the Montgomery County Ride-On fleet:
5550-5566 - 1996 05.503 (M11 CELECT Plus with Voith D863.3)
5567-5569 (later 5997-5999) - 1996 05.503 CNG (L10G Bravo with ZF Ecomat 5HP-590; transmission may have been changed to a Voith D864.3 at mid-life, not sure)
5572-5579 - 1998 05.503 (ISM with Voith D863.3)
ClassicTVFan82 4 years ago
i live in same county
uzumakiBLT 4 years ago