Metrobus of Maryland, DC, and Virginia

These buses operate in the Nation's Capital region, serving 2.5 states (where DC is .5), which serve about 350 routes. In my point of view, the Metrobus is a clean service which comes around more often than other buses. They do everything to keep it nice like replacing destination signs and replacing seats. So far, the buses that had their destination signs replaced are the 1993-1994 Flxible Metro-Ds, 1995 Flxible Metro-Es, 1995 NABIs, 1998 Orion Vs, and the 1999 Orion Vs. The 2000 Orion V's are starting to have their signs replaced. This series of replacing old destination signs with new orange signs is also known as "The Orange Crush". Ever since 2001, all of Metrobus' new buses are CNG or hybrid powered and low-floor buses (except for the 2002 Neoplan Articulated buses). Now with the order of the clean-diesel New Flyer D40LF's, the consecutive order of alternative fuel buses has been broken.

Year and Model	Picture Links	Bus Numbers/ What I Have	Short Description
1986-1990 Flxible Metro-Bs		5150-5185* 8700-8975* 9201-9239* 9251-9289* 9421-9463* 9301-9413 9481-9498	Most of these buses have retired. *Star indicates that those buses have retired
1992 Orion Vs		9602-9660 9602-9660	The very first Orion V's to serve WMATA.
1993-1994 Flxible Metro-Ds		9701-9785 9801-9835 9704-9785 9801-9834	These Metro-D's have air-conditioning mounted on top of the bus.
1995 Flxible Metro-Es		4001-4104 4001-4104	The last Flxibles ever made before going out of business in the United States.
1995 NABI Articulators		5201-5245 5204-5245	An additional articulated bus purchase when the MAN articulated buses were in service at the time.
1998 Orion Vs		4200-4412 4200-4411	All of these buses originally had Vultron destination signs which were all replaced by 2004.
1999 Orion IIs		3701-3742 3701-3742	Special "mini-buses" ordered for light routes and/or routes in DC with roads that are narrow or have tight corners.
1999 Orion Vs		3900-3950 3903-3945	WMATA's baby Orion V's.
2000 Orion VIs		2000-2099 2000-2099	The first and only order of Orion VI's for WMATA.
2000 Orion Vs		2100-2231 2100-2231	Very similar to the 1998 Orion Vs, the interior is slightly different.
2001-2002 New Flyer C40LFs		2300-2399 2401-2464 2300-2399 2403-2461	The first CNG bus in the WMATA fleet.
2002 Neoplan AN-460 Articulated		5301-5321 5301-5321	A more up-to-date order of articulated buses.
2005-2006 Orion VII CNGs (40-footers)		2501-2685 2701-2730 2501-2685 2701-2730	Another very large order by WMATA, especially because these are also CNG's. Several of them will be wrapped in a green plant and animal theme.
2006 Orion VII CNGs (30-footers)		3001-3035 3001-3035	A small order of "baby" Orion VII CNG's.
2006 New Flyer DE40LFs and DE40LFRs (Hybrids)		6001-6050 6001-6050	WMATA's first diesel-electric hybrid buses. Introduced in late January of 2006.
2006 New Flyer D40LFRs		6101-6217 6101-6217	They're not just diesel buses, they're clean-diesel buses!
2007 New Flyer C40LFRs		2801-2825 2801-2825	The first order of restyled C40LFs. 14 of these buses are used for the new Limited 79 route (MetroExtra).
2008 NABI Articulators (restyled BRTs)		5401-5422 5402	This is a first of many for WMATA. First WMATA buses to originally come with the new paint scheme, first CNG articulators, first BRTs, etc etc.
GEORGE 2002 Thomas SLF-230s		3951-3954 3951-3954	A small branch of Metrobus called GEORGE, these buses serve the 26 line that runs through Falls Church.
DC Circulator		1101-1129 1101-1127	The newest mass transit system in DC, service started on July of 2005. They use Van-Hool buses.
Metrobus Divisions		----	Pictures of Metrobus divisions / facilities.