QTC Garage 1981 - Ikarus test - Orange Yellow Splendor

In November 1981 Queens Transit tested a Hungarian made Ikarus articulated bus (type 280?). In this film we see some driver training in the depot yard, now the site of MTA Bus College Point Depot. Once known as Queens-Nassau, MTA Bus took over Queens Transit in 2005. The company had two busy routes between College Point/Whitestone-Flushing and Jamaica (Q25/34 and Q65), plus a Woodside-Flushing route over Northern Blvd (Q66), Jewel Ave (Q65A), the Long Island City - Middle Village route (Q67), the Co-op City - Flushing (QBx1) and numerous express routes between northeast Queens and Manhattan. There was a modest charter business as well, which was legally problematic for a company that was accepting government subsidies for both Capital and Operating expenses. This test bus is in Portland Tri-Met livery and I must assume was absorbed by their fleet after the demonstration at QTC.

[trainluvr]

When I shot this film it cost me money and I was not sure it was worth it and never thought it would be so popular. Thank you.

[Milkabika]

I'm very proud to see our buses in the USA. Greetings from Hungary!

[MagicMike-rdmz]

Goodmorning And Thanks for the history lesson I did'nt know that Queens Transit test a Artic Bus back in the day ... And you always make great videos ....

[bencefarkas]

I'm Hungarian, and I travelled by Ikarus, and so cool

[SnarkOrel]

Thanks for the video! It's so surprising to me to watch Ikarus bus in the USA. There were a lot of this buses in USSR and other eastern europe countries, so this bus is the bus of my childhood. Nowadays some Ikarus 280 buses are still used in Russia.

[nevoobrazimiy]

Thank you for sharing this piece of history!

[christopheryanoski]

i love watching these things go around turns.

[balazspethoAgroGO]

AMAZING footage. Thank you very much!
Greatings from Hungary :)

[trainluvr]

Thanks for the info. I forget who notified me of the bus or how I had access to the yard that day but if not for this film, it might have been forgotten.

[tricyann]

Portland OR had a fleet of the artics. I drove them for many years. I loveD driving them.

[KevinCNYC]

I heard OC Transpo remanufactured their fleet of 286s instead of retiring many of them like the TTC did. They even picked up some TTC units and ran them until 2003.

[BV]

is wonderful...so many thanks for sharing ; )

[chevycaprice]

Ikarus has been almost in every continent. =)

[ct]

So there's a new algorithm called DAIN which claims to smoothen the framerates and is able to increase the video FPS to around twice the original FPS. Do you remember if you shot this at the 18fps or 24fps setting? It's pretty important so that the algorithm can properly smooth out the fps.

[ClassicTVManX]

Do I see what looks like TriMet (Portland, OR) livery on that Crown/Ikarus 286? TriMet did, in fact, have 87 of this kind of buses in operation in the years 1982-99.

[gabeguzman]

yeah we did i miss those and the rts's we had not like the crap busses we have now!

[williamgreeter]

MCTS had these buses until 2000 they probably had the L10 Cummings diesel

[Alexandre-hkjq]

The articulation looks so tiny, it seems hard to turn and the attrition on the back tires must be tremendous

[btmacster]

The half of the bus were made of american parts

[MrLiveON]

херась, советы в тылу засели. помню какие они вонючие  были у нас...дымили  на сто метров назад и всё отравляли