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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 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 400321 viewsNOPSI #400 assigned to Express 93 - Morrison in 1974. Collection of 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 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 182333 viewsNOPSI 1963 Flxible #182, retrofitted with Busoramas, finishes up run #31 of the Canal - Lake Vista route, at Canal and Delta Streets. (A NOPSI GMC Fishbowl encroaches from far behind.) 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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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 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 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 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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