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Just thinking...........

Wondering now how the straphangers who are now riding lines currently using the soon-to-be-retired "Brighton Belle" R-68s will find the new seating arrangement ut ...

Washington, DC......

Prior to the 1962 replacement of DC TRANSIT's streetcars, a large electric directional sign hung from the ceiling in the main concourse of Union Station, reading:

'TO STREET ...

Every inch a timeless classic........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154519

(courtesy: nycsubway.,org)

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If memory serves me correctly.......

The very last NJ company to roster Old Look suburbans was "SOMERSET"; I last recall seeing then in the vicinity of the "Port-of-Authority" a ...

Man, I'd come out of retirement and work FULL-TIME, just to be able to ride such CLASSICS as this, twice a day!! (with STRAPS, yet!) Very Happy

BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS!!!! Wink

"NYO"

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REAL BUSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very Happy

I REALLY feel my age, now, seeing classic buses like these, and remember growing up with them so long ago, just feet from our front stoop! (and Your's Truly ...

LOVE THOSE LEYLANDS!!!!!!!! Very Happy

Back in the day, LEYLAND double-deckers were as commonplace in London (and other British cities) as were our Old Looks, here at home.

A number of (now-vintage ...

EXCELLENT PHOTOS!!!!!!!!!!! Wink

The Old Look (#7311) in the last photo looks to be in a different paint scheme than what I've seen on various early postwar PS buses.

In b/w, ...

traildriver:

Do you know where the the historic buses from the GREYHOUND museum have ended up?

Wherever they ended up, I certainly hope they will receive a LOT of well-deserved "TLC"! ...

W.B.:

Curious.......

Are there more sets of "R-211s" now operating on the "Bee"?

Are any of the old "veterans" still on the line, or have they now all been repla ...

W.B.:

Just as was the case in "Shik-aga", the time frame of 1965/66-1968 here in "Joisey" pretty much marked the end of all non-"Gee-Em" buses (transit and subrban)
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SPOLER ALERT ("AVALON")

One VERY dramatic scene in this film depicts a PCC derailing and crashing into an auto standing at the gas pumps of a filling station across the street; this scene ...

Also......

In the 1990 movie "AVALON" (set in 1948-early 1950s Baltimore), ANY and ALL references to trolleys as "STREETCARS" is status quo (frequent mention if them throughout ...

Joe:

Scroll down page to "TICKETING"............

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_London

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelcard

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Somewhat on topic: A friend's granddaughter will go to London in January for a junior semester abroad. She will live in a dorm some short distance by Underground from the center-city classroom. As I h ...