BusTalk

I lack mobility in my age, but I would enjoy reading about Rhode Island local buses and the use of Wave cards. My emphasis is on the Wave card one can buy for $5 at a 7-Eleven. It seems the $2 base fa ...

There could be various reasons why the Board of Transportation did not establish an interborough bus route across the Brooklyn Bridge after the 1950 reconstruction. For one, the city had invested in f ...

Photos of PCC's alongside BMT elevated trains on the Brooklyn Bridge are fairly rare; in this 1942 photo, we have a PCC alongside a BMT train; just two years after this nostalgic photo was snapped, th ...

Don't some municipal bus firms still have baseball signs flashing above the driver's window? In streetcar days, it would be a placard next to the front door, Game Today.
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There is an excellent track map of Brooklyn streetcar lines in 1946. It may be enlarged for a study of Grand Army Plaza or anyplace else. At the bottom right corner is a list of those who contributed ...

Circa-1949/1950, we have a 6000-series car meeting PCC #1069 (Vanderbilt & Grand Army Plaza)

Note, also, the pole-mounted "TROLLEY STATION" sign, once numerous throughout Brooklyn.... ...

Not a complete "must." Until robberies caused transit operators to use locked fareboxes in the early 1960's, operators often made change when the vehicle was in motion. The big problem occur ...

Here at the 9th Avenue depot's lover level, side-by-side, we see PCC #1032 and Peter Witt #8361, making for an interesting comparison between the two types of cars, built many years apart.........

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I'm no expert, but someplace at Times Square, the two systems shared running rails, but there were two conduits. The plow could move side to side. In the 1940's, at some places the TARS conduit was of ...

Memory can be tricky, but I am certain this chaotic scene is not at the Ninth Avenue car house, either upper level or lower level. I have no recollection of the setting of DeKalb car house.
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This interesting 1942 photo has a PCC gliding along Brooklyn Bridge trackage with a BMT El train (note the convertible car) rumbling alongside.

In 1944, when the El trains stopped running across th ...

CTA 7034 is given a 1940 date. Can't be date of photo, since CTA was organized in 1947. Note the door configuration, 3 +2. Much faster loading than the transit buses GM or Flxible built for years and ...

Thanks for the explanation of major PCC repairs at the DeKalb Carhouse. i was unaware of it.
The research that went into creating the 1936 PCC was extensive and expensive, yet this photo shows one of ...

On the "QM's" what type of fare boxes were employed....the time honored Johnsons, or other types?

In my memory, the conductor roamed both decks, holding a small one-hand register to the p ...

....if the "Dangerfields" received little respect during their many years of faithful service to the "Tee Yay" and MaBSTOA, rest assured that the postwar TWINS ("The Oddballs& ...