This attractive Gillig Advantage is seen in downtown Philadelphia in late July 2008. It is believed to be operating a courtesy service to the Parkway Shopping Centre.
 
Similarly deployed on the same day is this Grumman Flxible operating to Park Towne Place.
 
Two years later FACT's Gillig Advantage 158 is pressing through the morning rush hour traffic on its run into Pittsburgh. FACT is an acronym for Fayette Area Co-ordinated Transport, based south of Pittsburgh.
Transportation of a different kind in Pittsburgh in July 2010 was provided by this pair of mock trolleys, lead by diesel powered 896, curiously the one behind is numbered 2098.
 
Awaiting passengers outside the Hard Rock Cafe across the river from the CBD are three of the city's fleet of DUKW amphibious landing craft adapted to carry sightseers on a land and water tour of the city.