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Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:50 am Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
Has anyone else noticed (regarding the former "bus repository" between the BMT ramps at Fresh Pond Road) that the buses, in every photo, are parked facing OUT from the narrowest part of the ... |
Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:44 am Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
Twenty-four years separate these IRT signs at 23rd Street and Main Street (Flushing)............
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?540
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?37
(courtesy: nycs ... |
Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:37 pm Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
Further comparison of station tablet tiles ("BROAD STREET"
That "Bee-Em-Tee" Broad Street was a re-tiling (notice the ITC Bookman font used for the station name). When first ope ... |
Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:25 pm Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
In 1970, the last ex-SURFACE TDH-5106s were retired; for some time, they were stored in the yard at the Colesium depot.
One of these distinctive buses (with the protruding front sign box) can be se ... |
Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2024 1:04 pm Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! |
Interesting, also, to compare the original, 1900s-era mosaics in the IRT stations with the more modern, more "streamlined" tiled signs typical of the IND, by the 1930s.
Many BMT signs wer ... |
Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:47 pm Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
W.B.:
Thanks for the info..
By 1973, were any of the ex-FACL "Jetson"* Fishbowls still running to for "Em-Tee-Yay", or had they already been retired?
What about the ex-SUR ... |
Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:44 pm Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
In this interesting 1974 photo, we see ex-NYCTA "Jetson" #2*, now playing in a new role (Parks Department?)...........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153395
(courtesy: nycsubway.o ... |
Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:28 am Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
Same location in 1974; note that the area between the BMT ramps is now jammed full of trashed Fishbowls, silently awaiting their last runs.......to the scrapper...........
https://www.nycsubway.org ... |
Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:08 pm Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
W.B.:
You mentioned "farebox codes"; it would be interesting to see a list of farebox codes (regarding the different depots) from, say, the 1950s through to the present day.
Think of t ... |
Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:04 am Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
Excerpts from my copy of "THE NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY OPERATING BUDGET PROPOSAL: 1988-1991".......
"BUS DEPOT PLAN"
".......a key to providing more efficient bus ... |
Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:57 am Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
(SEE PREVIOUS POSTS)
In this undated photo, we see "Borough Bomber" #647 basking in the glare of florescent lighting at an unidentified garage..........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/ ... |
Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:21 pm Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
W.B.:
Getting back to lighting in NYC transit facilities.......
We know that the IND's Euclid Avenue station was the first to be illuminated by florescent lighting (1948)
The first "buse ... |
Topic: Baseball buses/rapid transit (then and now) |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:41 pm Subject: Baseball buses/rapid transit (then and now) |
And, today, the Mets simply TANKED(!!)
What a difference a day makes.....go figure...........
"NYO"
Talking about swinging pendula . . . |
Topic: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:40 pm Subject: NOT a "Noo Yawk" subway/old lighting/signs/buses |
The "Shermans" look like they may be the 5101's ordered in 1948 by the "Bee O'Tee." The area around the rear passenger exit looks a bit different from the 40-footers from 1953 to ... |
Topic: Baseball buses/rapid transit (then and now) |
W.B. Fishbowl
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Forum: New York City Buses Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:33 pm Subject: Baseball buses/rapid transit (then and now) |
....the "Bombers" are slipping a bit as of late, while the Mets have won ALL of their last six games (QUITE a turn-around from just a few weeks back.....talk about the "Comeback Kids&qu ... |
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