r/bus

Today (5/7/2026) in Kings Park there was a vintage bus rally (with some new ones too). Reddit mashed some of my clips together, you can barely tell I took these frantically and with a broken finger 😜.

These pics only consist Mercedes Benz (Evobus Daimler)
0530g Facelift Citaros Euro 4/5.
City: Wuppertal

Irisbus Citelis 18 by TCL Lyon, France

This photo was taken when I was filming severe rain.

This is another variant of the Tiger buses from the 80s. All buses which predate MMK2218 (in pic) were of this design before MMK2219 came with a new Tallboy-like design. These had the longest wheelbase and strongest engines of BEST at that time. Just like how most of the other buses from the late 70s and 80s era, they were rebuilt in 1996 with a new "wide body" design similar to the Vikings from that era if you refer to my earlier posts; though I could not find much pics of the rebuilt 3xxx series Tiger buses predating MMK2218 and herself. As you would guess, the lifespan policy from the 2000s reduced it's life by 2 years and retired it in 2005 instead of 2007 to meet emission standards.

Introduced in 1986 and retired in 2005. Buses MMK2219 and onwards of the Tiger batch of 1986 had this new design which was popular in those days. They were also called the "Latniwala" buses or "Tincans". Sometime in the 90s, the sliding windows were replaced to drop down ones and in 1996 they were completely rebuilt to a new design to the one in the 2nd pic which was a new trend in those days. They were retired in 2005 instead of 2007 due to a new policy which brought down the lifespan from 21 years to 15. The series 3950 - 3975 batch of Tigers predates the 5xxx series Tiger Tallboys introduced from that same year which is to be posted soon.

4/7/26 CORRECTION: The second pic is actually a rebuilt Tiger TALLBOY model, refer to my comment on the actual rebuilt version.
I just realised it as the one in the 1st pic is of the aforementioned 39xx series of buses, but the second pic is of a 5xxx series model which was a Tiger Tallboy model which was rebuilt. Apologies..s

These are some of the Orion Vs ever made and supposedly the last diesel ones ever. It seems like only 20-30 are still in service only on the BxM4C route from White Plains to Madison Square Park, Midtown Manhattan. I always love seeing them! Picture taken at E 79th/5th today.

This used to be an Formee Vasttrafik Vårgårdabuss 97 roaming around alingsås area of sweden

Introduced in 2008, retired in 2023. Most of the 2008 batch of Tata CNG buses were rebuilt in 2016 to the one you see in the 2nd picture, the rebuild was due to poor construction of the original bodies. Notice the change from sliding windows to drop down windows post rebuild, installation of digital route boards and change in headlights. Even the roof was made slightly thinner to accomodate the side destination board.