Salute to Brill . . . .   2134 turns north onto Granville Street from Robson, circa 1977.  Trolleys on this route set out from Sunset Beach, ran past the shops of Denman Street, Robsonstrasse and Chinatown, rumbled down Kingsway and looped at Joyce.  They returned as 6-Davie.  This fella wears the orange and yellow stripes of the post-BC Hydro livery.  It still has its cigarette turn indicators, very different from the plentiful and prominent LEDs on today's buses.  A driver has stuffed cloth into the vent to keep a draft off his legs.  The building with awnings is gone;  Chapters Books and Starbucks are there now.  A guy who sold art books in the original building was also the Canadian importer of Kadee model trains.
	Armpit of Nanaimo . . . .   The bus station, that is.  Not the bus!  Old 317 of Vancouver Island Coach Lines awaits assignment at the Hub City's dreary dockside depot.  It's a Western Flyer "Canuck", model P41C.  Canucks were used mainly on the north end of the Island before Highway 19 was paved.  This operator also had PD4104s, PD4108s and P8M4905s.  The paint reminds me of the United Airlines Stratocruiser piston airliner.  Much inferior was the green-and-black striping with B U S graphic that superceded it.  One last thing:  if you've ever wondered which bus station had the most totally unintelligible PA system of all time, look no further.
	Not an AM General . . . .  Actually it's a Winnipeg-assembled Flyer D-800, southbound on Burrard Street.  The trolley wires are on Davie.  The 2134 (top of page) would have wired past here to reach its layover point at Beach.  Units numbered 3101-3150 were true diesels, unlike 3151-up (for details keep clicking the Next link below).  Mrs. Selkirk, seen running for the door, is re-enacting her part in the old Bob Newhart standup routine about the bus driver school.
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