BusTalk

This timeless photo (Penn Station, NY) from 1979 "speaks" many volumes, indeed (how well Your's Truly recalls this!)

We were MORE advanced then than what we are today in 2026; things were ...

Notice, in 1968 on #1 they had two small ad racks in the back, each nestled between the rear wheels, while in 1969 the far back rack was taken out of that side. Also, how the other side of #20's adve ...

And unrelated to "mass transit," but I'm sure you've heard about the outage that affected Verizon customers in several states yesterday? In this case, this was made all the more inevitable ...

"Jetson" renumbering........

When the "Jetson" Fishbowls originally rostered by FACCo and "Soiface" became part of the :"Tee-Yay"/"stoa" fleet, how ...

Mr. Fischler's REALLY gonna need that Maalox, apparently . . . not only did the "Bloo-shoits" lose tonight, but they're now LAST in the Metropolitan Division. However, the "Joisey" ...

W.B.:

EXCELLENT sources of historical "Noo Yawk" bus information,for cetain (ever refer to "MOTOR COACH AGE"?); must have taken years to fully compile the information you have f ...

W.B.:

If I asked this question before, accept my apologies....but HOW are you able to co-ordinate such a tremendous amount if data on historical "Noo Yawk" bus operations, focusing on ser ...

Haven't seen it in "Noo Yawk City," but it's evident how durable that design was.

Speaking of a thousand words . . .

Today is the 60th anniversary of a momentous change in traffic patterns: The conversion of Fifth Avenue to one-way southbound, and Madison Avenue to one-way nor ...

Interesting thought..........

Recall the darkest days of 1981, when over 2,100 subway cars failed to answer the "call to duty", due to years of deferred maintainence and rampant vandalism ...

Just a thought............

As "Gee-Em buses were indeed THE bus of choice so far as CMCCo was concerned (with the exception of the postwar "Pattons", I'm going to wager that, had &qu ...

Here's a 1990s photo of an "ACADEMY" 3200-series METRO "B" at Hoboken; for some years, I commuted on these buses on the rush-hour "BOULEVARD EAST" run (Nungessers-Hoboken ...

"Late in the game"..........

I always wondered why "En-Jay-Tee" waited as long as they did to jump onto the RTS "bandwagon" (circa-1997)

By that late date, as I hav ...

Furthermore, though not directly related to our situation but rather, given the comparisons of "See-Bee-Tee-See" to Disney monorail technology, here's this video to show . . .

https://ww ...

.........with the last true stronghold of the faithful old "Fordy-Fors" over on "The Isle of Staten" now under NTT rule, transit buffs are now finding less and less to ride and to ...