On June 5th 2004, the PBM hosted an excursion in Orange County CA using OCTD’s restored Flxible #201.

We had a good turnout for the excursion on a beautiful sunny southern California day. Many PBM members from Northern California traveled to Orange County and were joined by many of our Southern California members as well as members of the Western Transit Society.

PBM member Matt Cantor driving x-San Diego Transit T6H5307A, #401 arrived with PBM members from the San Diego area to join the excursion. Both buses were posed together at the OCTD division before the excursion.

After a brief tour of OCTD's Garden Grove facility to photograph various OCTD buses, the excursion departed aboard OCTD's restored Flxible 111DD-D05-1 #201, which was beautifully restored to like new condition by OCTD. Ed Buckley of the Western Transit Society helped direct the route of the excursion which retraced the OCTD routes in the Santa Ana area, where 201 originally ran. Photo stops were made to pose 201 in many of its old haunts. After a lunch break and more photo stops, including a group photo, a raffle was held before returning to the OCTD yard.

Thanks for a successful day go to our driver from the OCTD and Ed Buckley. The PBM will be planning another southern California excursion next year.