2004 IC CE 200 (walkaround)

[@MistyTheBorderCollie]

Nice bus! The 1st Gen CEs are one of my favorites. That bus also looks very clean.

[@carolinameck]

I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately we don't have a lot of these old gems left due to incoming propane bluebird visions but they are still around probably another 2 1/2 years they will be all gone.

[@MistyTheBorderCollie]

@@carolinameck Yeah, I saw a lot of them are being sold in your county. We still have some in my county, but the ones I know that were sold or are being sold are 866, 868S, 884, 885, 893 and 895 (I rode 895 as a sub for 894, but I didn’t get a picture of it). We have a few 1st Gens as activity buses as well.

[@carolinameck]

@@MistyTheBorderCollie Nice! I'll be sure to be on the lookout for more of the 1st gens for ya! we gotta few activity 1st gens as well. You might have peeped them in one of my north meck videos

[@JoshuaWithTheBuses]

Was this repainted? Because all the side lettering isn't in Highway Gothic. But, that's a really nice bus! We have only 3, Buses 106, 107, and 108. It looks really clean, and it must run nice! These are really good buses.

[@carolinameck]

Yes it was a repaint. I think it was repainted 2 or 3 years ago not to sure when the job was done

[@JoshuaWithTheBuses]

@@carolinameck Okay. Well, I just saw that it looked so clean.

[@carolinameck]

@@JoshuaWithTheBuses absolutely

[@Bus293Fan]

Sorry, was busy

[@carolinameck]

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[@YTJeanGamer76]

It got LED

[@carolinameck]

Yes. It’s North Carolina Spec’d it’s all led except for the headlights and front turn signals

[@usfarmcop]

Retrofitted with LED turn signals, interior lights, and 8-Ways, that's the way CMS has pretty much been pushing stuff as you can do upgrades but you can't do downgrades per DPI rules

[@lorenzogore3536]

Are y'all gonna retired one of them ic ces or still in service

[@carolinameck]

As of right now some are slowly being fazed out and sold to other parts of NC or just being scrapped in general. A few of the 1st gen CEs are still out running due to the mileage not being as high enough for them to retire or they are just running around as spares. 226 the bus in my video is hard to not retire because it has such low mileage and it doesn’t give any issues for the mechanics to work on so as far as 226 goes it might not retire till 2025/6 if anything but the rest of them might be sooner

[@lorenzogore3536]

@@carolinameck how come y'all barely have any fs65s in the 2000s or the 1999

[@carolinameck]

@@lorenzogore3536 we have only one 1999 fs65 at our school lot and we might have a 2000 fs at one of our lots 15 mins out from our school. Due to new buses being bought every single year the older fs65s are being fazed out and put as spares. They are still around but are limited. The only fs65s that are left in the county are the 05s through 07s.