BusTalk

CTA "Baseball Specials" were quite popular on the "L" for decades; these well-patronized specials carried thousands of fans to watch (and root for) the Cubs at Wrigley Field------s ...

Now while "Shik-aga" never ran the benighted "Borough Bombers," its suburban counterpart, the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA, or "Are-Tee-Yay") did - and, like in ...

WB------the 1969 transit scene was indeed a sad spell for "Noo Yawk" transit buffs; on the other hand-fans of a certain "Noo Yawk" ball club (based at Shea!) indeed had a LOT to ch ...

Think of it-------------When the IND's "Are-Tens" were new in 1948/1949-SURFACE was still on the scene and double-deckers could still be found on Fifth; too-streetcars and trolleybuses were ...

Consider-also-the often-swaybacked wooden El cars that dated to the 1880's and 1890s (electrified by 1903) which were still carrying passengers through the 1940s and into the 1950s; when NJT retired t ...

WB: Ironically it was the "Eye-Are-Tee"-and NOT the "Standard Railroad Of The World" (PRR)-that boasted the first all-steel passenger car; that proud distinction went to #3342 ...

Irony: How ironic in that Brooklyn's PCC fleet lasted 20 years on the streets while the postwar trolleybuses were gone by 1960-when they were but 12/13 years old-and then consigned to th ...

The Brooklyn trolleybuses were built between 1948 and 1949; between 1947 and 1948 the "Bee-oh-Tee" also purchased "Oddball" TWIN COACHES--------also "Patton" C41/45 GTs/D ...

Beginning when the "Noo Yawk" El trains were hauled by Forney engines-the passenger rolling stock was wood; after the Els were electrified wooden cars continued to be used (steel cars were-o ...

"En-Jay-Tee's" 870's sure made use of Luminator fonts.

Where I lived for 40 years, in the early years of my living there many an "En-Jay-Tee" bus model MC-9 from MCI, passed by ...

"See-Tee-Yay's" approach to safety precautions certainly differed from "Noo Yawk," for sure. I mean - no pantograph gates on rail cars, no guards at the edge of the outermost trac ...

Boston and Philly were unlike "Noo Yawk" in that both cities upgraded/updated certain prewar rapid transit cars; this entailed updated seating and florescent lighting------seen pictures show ...

WB----------I'd brought up second-hand "Noo Yawk" RTS-know we know Fort Worth purchased a group; others went to Boston for tour/charter runs-------then there were those that journeyed across ...

WB: The "Slinkies"/Dustbusters"/"electric eels" etc are (scary to say) are so downright HIDEOUS they outdo our current "fleet' here in "Noo Yawk"!!!! :s ...

WB: THANK YOU! Wink

These pictures clearly show the "graphics" that distinguished the different type-signs; interestingly the Queens "indies" preferred old-fashioned roller curta ...