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Topic: .....and leave the driving to us...... |
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Forum: 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!
Mom was born (1917) in her grandparent's house ... |
Topic: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC |
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Forum: 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............
https://cptdb.ca/topic/12768-decamp-bus-lines- ... |
Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! |
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Forum: 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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Forum: 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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Forum: 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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Forum: 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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Forum: 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...... |
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Forum: 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 |
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Forum: 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...... |
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Forum: 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.......... |
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Forum: 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!)
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Topic: Underground railways of a different sort.......... |
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Forum: 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! |
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Forum: 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! |
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Forum: 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! |
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Forum: 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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