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NORTA 147 & 172472 viewsNORTA#147 & 172 at Canal and Tchoupitoulas Streets waiting to head outbound, assigned to route 55 Elysian Fields and route 16 S. Claiborne, respectively. Photograph taken December 31, 2009 by Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 7379 viewsNOPSI #7 hard at work on the Express 71-Nashville via Earhart. Photographer unknown; collection of Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 568426 viewsHere is NOPSI GMC RTS #568, converted into a New Orleans Police Mobile Command unit, taken at the corner of Tchoupitoulas and Poydras Streets on Carnival 2004 (a good decade or so after the NORTA put the RTS coaches out to pasture). Photograph taken 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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NOPSI 400321 viewsNOPSI #400 assigned to Express 93 - Morrison in 1974. Collection of Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 4 & 58700 viewsRetired NOPSI 1960 GMC TDH-5301 "New Look" buses 4 and 58 sadly languish at an unknown location in the rain. Photograph taken November 23, 1975 by Donald Weiss; 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 39268 viewsNOPSI #39, assigned to Express 71, takes on passengers. Collection of Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 329279 viewsSame intersection, different era. 1967 Flxible #329, hard at work on the Express 80 (Lake Vista Via Canal Blvd.), picks up passengers and sports a new RTA decal, as does the Flx piggybacking it, after Regional Transit Authority's takeover from New Orleans Public Service Incorporated. Circa 1983; the 1967 Flxible (and remaining '65 GMC) Fishbowls had about 2 years' worth service left. Collection of Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 32312 views"Welcome Aboard"! NOPSI #32 on public inspection in 1961. (Notice the "lightning bolt" NOPSI logo decal hasn't been installed on the bus yet.) 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 314 & 360266 views'63 NOPSI Flxible Demonstrator #314, the first of her batch equipped with roof A/C and assigned to Canal-Lakeshore (run #62), passes outbound '67 Flx Fishbowl 360 at the corner of Canal and St. Charles/Royal, with an outbound Charley streetcar and another Flx in the distance. Photographed by Gerald L. Squier; collection of Aaron Handy III.
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