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Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! |
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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Forum: 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
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Forum: 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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Forum: 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!)  |
Topic: .....and leave the driving to us...... |
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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Forum: 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
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Forum: 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
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Views: 325504
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Forum: 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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Forum: 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!)........
www.imcdb.org/vehicle_168578-Ford-Model-A-1930 ... |
Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! |
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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Forum: 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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Forum: 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!)
(an LARY car can ... |
Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! |
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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Forum: 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.
Again, who would have thought, that, a few decades later, elec ... |
Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! |
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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Forum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 3:36 pm Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta! |
Cyberider:
You are quite welcome!
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 |
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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Forum: 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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Forum: 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........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155646
https://www.nycsubway.org ... |
Topic: NYC/London congestive pricing (Eyewitness News) |
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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Forum: 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!
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
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Forum: 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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