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  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Sat Feb 15, 2025 11:51 am   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver:

As always, I am always further educated by the detailed info you share here, regarding old-school bus operations.......thanks! Wink

Mom was born (1917) in her grandparent's house ...
  Topic: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2025 10:52 pm   Subject: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
Here's a rare photo of one of DE CAMP's postwar TD-4507s, looking quite handsome after being repainted in its new 1950s-era colors............ Wink

https://cptdb.ca/topic/12768-decamp-bus-lines- ...
  Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2025 7:18 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
Here are a few of the tough-looking motorized trailers that ran in Brooklyn until the late 1940s; the center doors on both sides were paneled over, and a new front entramce/exit was cut into the car b ...
  Topic: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2025 7:05 pm   Subject: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
Cyberider:

Indeed!

It would be many decades before power steering and automatic transmissions became commonplace on the buses!

The last front-engined buses purchased (new) by DE CAMP were the ...
  Topic: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2025 5:36 pm   Subject: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
I was VERY lucky to come across this rare 1930s photo of one of DE CAMP's big, brawny 1928 WHITES, being refueled at the old Mount Pleasant Avenue garage; these buses were purchased for increased serv ...
  Topic: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2025 12:55 pm   Subject: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
Also............

Like most other New Jersey suburban carriers at that time, the company purchased its first Fishbowls in 1960.

These were SDM-5301s; the first group was purchased in 1960, the se ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2025 12:48 pm   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
Further:

Even as late as 1979, MARTZ buses were still calling at local diners, service stations, neighborhood stores, and the like, carrying on a proud old tradition that was once so commonplace du ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2025 12:41 pm   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver:

THANK YOU for posting this information; this was all "new news" to me, and was not aware of this.....QUITE interesting!

Look at how many terminals were once located in Man ...
  Topic: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2025 1:20 am   Subject: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
Finis...........

Sadly, the move by DE CAMP to end all suburban commuter bus operations and, instead, concentrate of charters was not enough to keep the iconic and long-established company (New Jer ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2025 1:10 am   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
(SEE PREVIOUS POST)

Interesting...........

Even though Newark was (and still is) New Jersey's largest city, it never, strangely enough, boasted a "union" bus terminal (here, I am not i ...
  Topic: Underground railways of a different sort..........
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: General Transportation - All Other Modes   Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2025 12:55 am   Subject: Underground railways of a different sort..........
Also, of interest, from Victorian England...........

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

(MOST futuristic, for its day!)

["SYNDENHAM"]
  Topic: Underground railways of a different sort..........
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: General Transportation - All Other Modes   Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2025 12:51 am   Subject: Underground railways of a different sort..........
Today, only historians and serious transit buffs know that New York's first "subway" opened in 1870, and was operated by pneumatic power (indeed, a startling creation straight out of the pag ...
  Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2025 12:42 am   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
The ancestor of the modern articulated light rail cars used in many cities today were the highly-unorthodox "Two Rooms And A Bath" streetcars that entered service in Boston, back in 1912.
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  Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 8:15 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
This page features a number of vintage photos of the many different types of streetcars that once operated in Boston; there is a section here dedicated to the center-entrance cars, along with a number ...
  Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 8:01 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
The most famed of the center-entrance cars were the hundreds rostered by the BERy/MTA (Boston)

Prior to WW1, BERY purchased a number of center-entrance trailers, byt, soon, hundreds of center-entra ...
 
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