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First produced in 1958, the now-classic Leyland "ATLANTEAN" ran in a number of British cities for many years; also, these buses also ran in Australia.

A "demo" once operated in ...

Bus longevity.........

The newest of the BMT "Standards (4000 series) dated to 1924.

The last of the type (introduced in 1915) were not retired until 1969.

Now, if this same "longev ...

Here are a few older views at platform level at De Kalb Avenue; if the old BMT-style mosaics were replaced with IND color bands, this station easily could have been one on the IND...............

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"The 'parent' of the "Eye-En-Dee".............

In a sense, the BMT, IMHO, was indeed a strong influence on the IND.

Think about it.

Like the BMT, the IND's new rolling stock we ...

"EAT YER HEART OUT, 'EYE-ARE-TEE'!" Wink

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"TWILIGHT" (CIY, 1958)

Note the "R-15" (signed for the #7) hunkering down between the "Multi" and the grizzled wooden El car..........

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From Greller's "SUBWAY CARS OF THE BMT":

"......the ability to run with a one-man crew was not pursued with the Multi-Section units, but the metal work on the sides ...

"A MULTItude of memories"...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?46932 ("new kid on the block")

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?46935 (interior view, 1936. The sm ...

"Gone too soon".............

Just as we've often lamented the premature retirements of the distinctive TDH-5106s (with their protruding front sign boxes) so should lament the premature pa ...

Recall.............

The "Bee-Em-Tee", when compared to the staid, decidedly old-fashioned "Eye-Are-Tee", was, indeed, a flashy "playboy".

The BMT was the ONLY one o ...

W.B.:

And what about all of those many years when those faithful "Steels" (aka "Brooklyn Battleships") and Triplexes of the "Bee-Em-Tee", and B&QT streetcars and t ...

"Steels" trivia (from: SUBWAY CARS OF THE BMT", James Clifford Greller)...........

"...........the first 100 cars were numbered #2000-2099, and were all single units, equipped f ...

W.B.:

Not only that, but (thankfully) the remaining "Shermans" did not last long enough to have the new "M" insignias slapped onto their steel flanks.......just would not have l ...

W.B.:

Sure looks like it's going to be another loooooooong (and insipid) season for the Mets, if their current, hapless shenanigans continue. Sad

Recall , long, long ago,when they were known as ...

The classic, now-iconic "RT" (last buses retired in 1979) and the "RM" Routemaster (last buses retired in 2005) are to this day the most memorable and iconic of all London buses.
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