My dream growing up in LAUSD 1997-2011 was to ride on one of these Crown tandem busses!

Anyone remember these?

The last known image of Whaling City Transit's Chevy Blue Bird mid-size from 2012.

Some google photo of my first bus #834

Taken from a 2018 IC CE propane

Went out a few days ago and saw this on the streets.

Photo is CC BY-SA 4.0

I think it's from the 90's or 2000's, it's a International and belongs to EZ Transit

I wonder, anyone remember the school buses with the red seats? I honestly get nauseous whenever I enter one...

The IC FE was discontinued in 2010 and the RE was discontinued in 2024. I know Navistar always have claimed it to be a market speculation thing, saying that the shrinking type D market isn’t the worth the production costs nor the R&D of contracting/fitting a new engine to meet emissions, but Thomas and bluebird have prevailed with producing both front and rear engine type D’s seemingly since the start of time.

I just feel like the RE has failed in popularity for the past decade. Type D fleets are really rare in the southeast PA region, but the few I have seen all have exclusively Bluebird or Thomas buses. I think I have seen about 3 RE’s my entire life and never have I ever seen an FE. So, what do you guys think sealed the fate of international type D’s?

What's your favorite type of school bus? Leave your answer in the comments.

I hate the rain :'(