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Canada Coach Lines' 1700 series TDM4515

 
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Dieseljim
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:26 pm    Post subject: Canada Coach Lines' 1700 series TDM4515 Reply with quote

Back in the 1970s and before that if one wanted to go to Crystal Beach, Ontario out of Buffalo, Canada Coach Lines had the perfect bus to get you there, their 1700 series TDM4515 old look suburban. Some of them came with the high back seating that resemble the recliners in highway cruisers and others with stanadard transit seats (all facing forward). Than there's that 6-71 Detroit Diesel that really made this bus something special, especially when mated with a Spicer 4 speed manual transmission. Most were equipped with flashing red lights at both ends so these buses could be used as school buses when needed as well. From Buffalo, buses left 672 Main Street (old Greyhound Terminal) 15 minutes after each hour until late in the game, when, a couple years before Crystal Beach amusement park closed for good in 1989, the service had, first been reduced to every two hours and discontinued altogether. By 1978, the TDM4515s had run their final miles. I am not sure if any of these buses had been preserved by a historical group, but this was a bus deserving of it. It was the workhorse of the CCL fleet until the SDM4501/4502 "new look" suburbans began arriving in force to bump the 1700s onto less strenuous runs. That 6-71 Detroit just would NOT die that easy. The first two groups of SDM4501s received by Canada Coach Lines were all built in Pontiac, Michigan just as at least some if not all the TDM4515s had been. The charm of this bus was the sound of that 6-71 as the driver wound it up between gear shifts. Sounded much like a PD4104. If there were ever Hall of Fame for buses, t his bus would get my vote to get in.
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