#80 – Monterey-Salinas Transit

Initial Service

Photographer and date are unknown. Tom Baker collection (sourced from J R Vintage Images.)

Twin built 824 model 34S Twin Co buses from 1946 to 1951. #86 was delivered, new, to Tacoma Transit Company in 1948 as part of an order of 13 buses numbered 81 to 93.

Service History

#86 was later sold to Bremerton-Charleston Transportation (BCT) in Washington state where it was still running in daily service in 1983 when it was acquired by Monterey-Salinas Transit.

Restoration of this bus by the MST Maintenance Department was begun after the bus arrived in Monterey and completed in September 1983. Bus#80 was used in special community service, parades, and as a mobile marketing center.

This brochure, produced by MST, has more information about the bus history and restoration:

History and Restoration

History continued…

Pathway to PBM 

Monterey-Salinas Transit restored #80 with the locally-familiar Bay Rapid Transit livery

Bus 80 was donated to the PBM by Monterey-Salinas Transit in September 2017.

What People Love 

Some people are familiar with the name Bay Rapid Transit. That was the private operator whose lines were taken over by Monterey Peninsula Transit (MPT) in 1973. Monterey–Salinas Transit was formed in 1981. This was re-formed as the Monterey-Salinas Transit District on July 1, 2010.

See more historic photos of #80 on streetcarmike.com.

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