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Big Wallaby wrote:Tonight's Disney World Roadside Bonfire is sponsored by TMC. You may find it on World Drive Southbound as MNSSHP is letting out.

It was great, I was working Magic Kingdom, came north on World Drive and saw 2749 gasping its last, and got up to the coordinator on visual, who got a great laugh out of me humming "Charriots of Fire".

Where there any marshmallows?

Big Wallaby wrote:Tonight's Disney World Roadside Bonfire is sponsored by TMC. You may find it on World Drive Southbound as MNSSHP is letting out.

It was great, I was working Magic Kingdom, came north on World Drive and saw 2749 gasping its last, and got up to the coordinator on visual, who got a great laugh out of me humming "Charriots of Fire".

I Am so sorry Wallaby that you did not get the pleasure of being the bus's last driver.


Oh boy a message from a man, woot, uh now what do I do? I am like the fat old momma cat who catches a mouse by sitting on it then wondering what to do with the mouse, lol.

mechurchlady wrote:Wombat 855 posts since 07-22-2004
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You sure you don't use a laptop while driving, BW??? :D:

Nah, he just uses a web enabled PDA.

Remember it's NOT a cellphone. :p:

Big Wallaby wrote:Tonight's Disney World Roadside Bonfire is sponsored by TMC. You may find it on World Drive Southbound as MNSSHP is letting out.

It was great, I was working Magic Kingdom, came north on World Drive and saw 2749 gasping its last, and got up to the coordinator on visual, who got a great laugh out of me humming "Charriots of Fire".

What I really want to know is why diesel was there (other than to get in the way). It's not like he was going to fix it and drive it back! Let RCFD put it out and then have Hughes take it back to VM South to dispose of it properly. Other than the steaming metal, the outside didn't look too bad, maybe they will rebuild it (Not).

When I'm sitting in traffic, and I hear car fire is the cause, I am always happy I'll get to see it. Sure enough, by the time I'd get there, it's gone. Not that I wish car fires on people, but I like to see WHY I'm stuck in traffic...

I have a couple questions about the "bonfire", BW and Cran. I hate to sound stupid but I'm just trying to picture the scene in my head.

BW, what is TMC? I assume "coordinator on visual" is the coordinator on scene but if you were driving how'd you hum where he/she could hear you? It was a Disney bus I guess?

Cran, who's diesel and Hughes and what is VM South?

So any idea what happened, why the bus caught fire? I'm guessing nobody was hurt or I'm certain you guys would have let us know.

I hope 2749 was one of the busses y'all hate and not a good one.

ktulu wrote:When I'm sitting in traffic, and I hear car fire is the cause, I am always happy I'll get to see it. Sure enough, by the time I'd get there, it's gone. Not that I wish car fires on people, but I like to see WHY I'm stuck in traffic...

I know what you mean, I always keep a bag of marshmellows in the glove box just for...

oh look.. ..a baby wolf....

Shorty82 wrote:I have a couple questions about the "bonfire", BW and Cran. I hate to sound stupid but I'm just trying to picture the scene in my head.

BW, what is TMC? I assume "coordinator on visual" is the coordinator on scene but if you were driving how'd you hum where he/she could hear you? It was a Disney bus I guess?

Cran, who's diesel and Hughes and what is VM South?

So any idea what happened, why the bus caught fire? I'm guessing nobody was hurt or I'm certain you guys would have let us know.

I hope 2749 was one of the busses y'all hate and not a good one.

Ok Shorty, I can help.

First of all, sorry for the confusing terms. Like we said before, it's a continuation of work and we sometimes forget that some of you don't work with us.

TMC is Transportation Management Co. the builder of the RTS bus. They are in Rosewell, NM of all places. The coordinator is the person at a hub that either dispatches the buses or controls the labor. In the case that BW was describing, the dispatcher (coordinator) stands out in a convenient place where they can see the loadzones and then dispatches a bus based on demand. The driver actually speaks face to face with the coordinator on visual dispatch so that's why the coordinator could hear BW.

Diesel is the call sign for the on duty mechanic or designate. Hughes is the heavy duty tow service that Disney uses to tow buses and VM South is Vehicle Maintenance - South location (as opposed to VM North). It is near FIW and that's where most of the serious work on a bus is done.

Unfortunately, 2749 was actually one of the better 2700 series buses. It was going to be retired soon, now it just went a little sooner than planned.

Zazu will have to add those to the acronym list. Wallaby seems to have a new acronym each day and sometimes he has a lot. Thanks big guy as I was confused also and I wrote the acronym list lol.