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NOPSI 307B626 viewsNOPSI #307B sporting Bus-O-Rama advertising signs. Photograph taken by Mike Strauch in 1982; collection of Mike Gallant.
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NOPSI 148259 viewsNOPSI #148 assagned to the West End - Lake Vista line in 1961. Collection of Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 39317 viewsNOPSI #39, assigned to Express 92 (Boutriline via Franklin), gets a washdown at Canal Station in 1961. (The line had since been rerouted to Leon C. Simon Boulevard.) Collection of Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 2356 viewsNOPSI #2, assigned to Express 71 (Nashville Via Earhart), takes on passengers at the inbound terminus at Canal & Baronne Streets in 1966. Collection of Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 1350249 viewsNOPSI trackless trolley #1350, assigned to Freret Street, hangs a right on Louisiana Avenue as it heads inbound to the CBD on June 9, 1963. Buses superceded the Freret trackless trolleys the very next day. Collection of Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 316356 viewsNOPSI #316 passes another 300-series Flxible New Look in the Canal Street bus lane one night in 1968. Collection of Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 184331 viewsNOPSI #184 leaves the Canal Street route terminus, circa 1965. Photographer unknown; collection of Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 1866 & 1871278 viewsNOPSI #1866 & 1871 assigned to the first express routes, Express 70 and Express 71, in 1958. Collection of Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 282713 viewsThursday, February 12, 1970---a tragic, traumatic night during Carnivaltime '70 as 24 year-old NOPSI operator Joseph Washington, working on the Tchoupitoulas line that evening, ignobly became the victim of his own bus! While traveling outbound, Washington was ejected from NOPSI 282 in a collison with an automobile @ Jackson and Annunciation, thrown under a back wheel, and dragged to his death and crushed as his driverless bus careened forward, bounced over the Jackson Avenue neutral ground and slammed into a building across the street.
2 of his passengers survived, however, albeit one with slight injuries. Not exactly the WORST way to go, but horrible nonetheless!
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NOPSI 292B785 viewsOn April 21, 1983, NOPSI 292B collided with an oncoming vehicle which was in the wrong lane, and sickeningly smashed into a large oak tree at the intersection of Gentilly Boulevard and Iris Street, injuring 25 passengers and its driver. NOPSI photo by Danny Birtacci; courtesy of the Historic New Orleans Collection [http://www.hnoc.org], contributed by Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 292B767 viewsOn April 21, 1983, NOPSI 292B collided with an oncoming vehicle which was in the wrong lane, and sickeningly smashed into a large oak tree at the intersection of Gentilly Boulevard and Iris Street, injuring 25 passengers and its driver. NOPSI photo by Danny Birtacci; courtesy of the Historic New Orleans Collection [http://www.hnoc.org], contributed by Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 408330 viewsNOPSI #408 assigned to Express 80 (Lake Vista via Canal Boulevard) in 1968. Collection of Aaron Handy III.
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