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NORTA 778436 viewsChartered NORTA M.A.N. Americana bus #778 idles in the Canal Street bus zone (refurbished with new streetcar tracks!) during Carnival 1997. Photograph taken by Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 408426 viewsNOPSI #408 assigned to Express 80 (Lake Vista via Canal Boulevard) in 1968. Collection of Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 39425 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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NORTA 232424 viewsThough you can't tell from the distance, NORTA #232, at the corner of Valmont Street and Saint Charles Avenue, is crammed to the hilt like sardines and prepares to shuttle her massive cargo of passengers downtown. Photograph taken April 9, 2011 by Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 263422 viewsNOPSI #263, assigned to St. Bernard - Lake Terrace, takes on 2 young schoolgoers. Collection of Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 400421 viewsNOPSI #400 assigned to Express 93 - Morrison in 1974. Collection of Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 226407 viewsNOPSI #226, along with another New Look (facing riverbound), comes home to roost near The Rivergate at the foot of Canal Street. Collection of Aaron Handy III.
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NORTA 97336399 viewsNORTA #97336, assigned to route 12 St. Charles, pulls up to the corner of Saint Charles and Jefferson Avenues in 1997, the Charley car having suffered a power outage that day. Photograph taken by Aaron Handy III.
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NORTA 179397 viewsNORTA #179 assigned to route 15-Freret (run 2) on layover at the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library in Tulane University. Photograph taken by Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 1007394 viewsNOPSI instituted the Vieux Carré route in 1974 to make up for the regular NOPSI buses forced to be rerouted to North Peters and North Rampart streets due to the damage the diesel vehicles were doing to the historic buildings in Da Quarter. Collection of Aaron Handy III.
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NOPSI 329385 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 1200380 viewsNOPSI trackless trolley #1200, assigned to Tulane, makes a left across the Saint Charles streetcar tracks on South Carrollton Avenue, not far from where it crosses another "South" street, South Claiborne Avenue, as she heads outbound to The CBD. Photographer unknown; collection of Aaron Handy III.
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