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R62CNG · Banned Joined: 14 Feb 2014 Posts: 186

Can someone please kill this trend already? It's holding back new trends from becoming popular.

Mr. Linsky · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:09 pm Post subject:

Bill D · Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 332 Location: Waterbury, CT

Hart Bus · Age: 74 Joined: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 1150

frankie · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 12:11 am Post subject:

X-Astorian · Joined: 19 Feb 2009 Posts: 171 Location: Central NJ

Tony A · Age: 79 Joined: 27 Jan 2013 Posts: 20 Location: Sarasota FL

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr. L and the other gentlemen who post and comment regularly on this board.

Although my posts are few and far between, I always check to see what is new here. As a child (before my family had a car) we rode the buses regularly and I was enthralled. The view was so much better than in the dark subway!

So many thanks for feeding my lifelong interest in NYC transit history, and keep up the great work.

frankie · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 10:17 pm Post subject:

Tony, I think it's safe to speak for all of us, but the pleasure is ours! As another transplanted New Yorker, we all enjoy sharing our wonderful memories of growing up in and around the city when different bus companies abounded and each make of buses has their own distinctive looks and personalities.

Some of us post and reply regularly while others just enjoy sitting back and enjoying the ride! Enjoy!

Frankie

Mr. Linsky · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2014 4:45 pm Post subject:

You might label the attached very historic image as a 'changing of the guard'.

Seen May 28th. 1947 trundling north and passing East 86th. Street on Manhattan's Third Avenue on the 'T' line between City Hall and Fort George at the northern end of Amsterdam Avenue is traction car #131 operating for the Third Avenue Railway System of New York (TARS).

It's a monumental day for #131 and its ilk as it makes its run for the very last time on the company's namesake thoroughfare.

#131's nemesis is seen taking its bows as it heads in the opposite direction in the form of a brand new 1947 44 passenger GM Coach modeled as a TDH 4507 and one of several hundred that will operate for TARS affiliate Surface Transportation System and will help to flood the company's rail routes in Manhattan and The Bronx in a conversion program.

Certainly a day of mixed emotions!

Photo courtesy of 'Vintage-Vault75' and is available at eBay as item # 171264700908.

Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, New York

Mr. Linsky · Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 5:06 pm Post subject:

Seen on a rather chilly day in November of 1936 and readying for its next trip on the M-8 Grand Street Crosstown Line in lower Manhattan is fleet # 202 - a 1934 30 passenger Mack modeled as a 6-CL-3S and one of nearly forty likenesses numbered in the lower 200's operating for the Avenue B and East Broadway Transit Company.

This particular day and this particular trip from Varick Street on the West side to the East River via Grand Street is by no means routine for #202 as its chauffeur for the run, and presumably for any other that day, was president of the company M. Bernard Greenberg filling in for striking drivers.

I'm sure that the police officer was on hand to quell any disturbance by strikers and that the four gentlemen at the front door were company colleagues wishing their boss well.

M. Bernard Greenberg, a stockholder in Green Bus Lines (NY), and his brother Jacob acquired a controlling interest in the company in 1934 and purchased the balance of the stock immediately after the war.

Avenue B held the distinction of being the last Manhattan private operator to succumb to city control.

Photo courtesy of 'Historic Images' and is available at eBay as item# 351011368950.

Many thanks also go to Jeff Marinoff for the heads up on this one.

Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, New York

Mr. Linsky · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 1:59 pm Post subject:

You might call this a unique way to catch a bus!

It's sometime in the winter of 1950 and somewhere along one of the three Queens routes that radiate to the east, south or west of central Jamaica operated by Jamaica Buses, Inc. of Baisley Park, New York.

# 409, a 1947 45 passenger Mack modeled as a C-45-GT and one of fifteen likenesses numbered 400 to 414, apparently careened over a 1947 Cadillac (model too difficult to discern even for this writer) before almost landing in the sun porch of the pictured house.

As absolutely astounding as it might seem, the lady driving the car suffered only fractures of the skull and one leg and the bus driver a bang on the head and some internal injuries (the bang probably from bouncing over the car).

Equally amazing is the fact that # 409 survived and it, along with most of its siblings were Dieselized in 1957 and renumbered to the 500's.

The 400 series Macks were the company's first post war order and a departure from their long prewar relationship with Twin Coach.

Photo courtesy of 'Historic Images' and is available at eBay as item # 371015171311.
Thanks also to Jeff Marinoff for the heads up on this one as well.

Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, New York

Hart Bus · Age: 74 Joined: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 1150

Sure don't make them like they used to .

frankie · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 10:49 pm Post subject:

Mr. Linsky · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 12:48 am Post subject: