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  Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 4:45 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
This nostalgic photo from the 1930s depicts an open-top double-deck bus in Los Angeles........

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/410109109808783111/

Note:

The first double-deckers in LA entered s ...
  Topic: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 83
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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:47 am   Subject: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
Here's an interesting photo from 1981, just outside of the Lincoln Tunnel, looking east................

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156760

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

I am wondering if ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:39 am   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
Also of interest........

https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/Arrow_Stage_Lines

(scroll down page for photos!) Wink
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:29 am   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
Denver-Salt Lake-Pacific Stages...24xxx series in the CTS roster. Their Eagles used to regularly come into The Port on the New York/San Francisco pool trips.

traildriver:

Thanks for this info; ...
  Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 317
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PostForum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 1:24 am   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
Check out this elderly FAGEOL double-decker seen in the 1943 Laurel & Hardy film, "THE DANCING MASTERS" (this might have been an ex-LAMCC bus)

A nice little scale model was used for t ...
  Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 317
Views: 325504

PostForum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 1:03 am   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
(SEE PREVIOUS POSTS)

Check out the "Red Car" ("Hollywood" car) mockups used in several scenes of 1988's "Who framed Roger Rabbit" (VERY authentic replication, for sure ...
  Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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Views: 325504

PostForum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 12:48 am   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
Here's a still from "FALSE ALARMS"; a LARY car is just glimpsed on the right (you can also see the motorman at his station!)........ Wink

www.imcdb.org/vehicle_168578-Ford-Model-A-1930 ...
  Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 9:17 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
LARy cars were in at least one episode of The Three Stooges. Laurel and Hardy got their car "shortened" between a couple of LARy or PE cars, don't remember which.

Cyberider:

In the 3 ...
  Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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Views: 325504

PostForum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 4:43 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
Scroll down page for a photo of the 1928 YELLOW open-top double decker seen briefly in the 1930 Laurel & Hardy short, "HOG WILD" (filmed in, where else, LA!) Wink

(an LARY car can ...
  Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 317
Views: 325504

PostForum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 4:38 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
Cyberider:

1963 was indeed a sad year for area "traction" buffs, as LA lost both its trolleybuses and its streetcars. Sad

Again, who would have thought, that, a few decades later, elec ...
  Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 317
Views: 325504

PostForum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 3:36 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
Cyberider:

You are quite welcome! Wink

Did not know about the experiment where standard-gauge trucks were applied to a LARy PCC.

Interesting that the small group of double-ended PCC's purc ...
  Topic: The "Em-Tee-Yay" goin' with 'lectric buses
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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 11:16 am   Subject: The "Em-Tee-Yay" goin' with 'lectric buses
In case anyone missed this one the first time around.......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bus (note photo of the "Bah-ston" NEOPLAN; these were the still-modern coaches in use wh ...
  Topic: NYC/London congestive pricing (Eyewitness News)
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 11:06 am   Subject: NYC/London congestive pricing (Eyewitness News)
Recalling the good ol' days when REAL buses were NOT afraid of a little bit of the fluffy, slushy white stuff........ Wink

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155646

https://www.nycsubway.org ...
  Topic: NYC/London congestive pricing (Eyewitness News)
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 653
Views: 325979

PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 10:55 am   Subject: NYC/London congestive pricing (Eyewitness News)
"Slinkies" in da snow: STAY OUT OF THE REAR SECTION, AT ALL COSTS! Shocked Shocked

Many years ago, coming home from work in Manhattan aboard an NJT VOLVO artic (man, I HATED those " ...
  Topic: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

Replies: 83
Views: 61731

PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 12:40 am   Subject: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
Further:

Second-hand DE CAMP buses (WW2).............

During the War, DE CAMP also (in addition to GREYHOUND) purchased used buses from:

CHAMPLAIN COACH COMPANY

NEWARK SIGHTSEEING COMPANY ...
 
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