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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2020 7:10 pm Post subject:

traildriver:

I guess it IS true after all.......truth IS indeed STRANGER than fiction! Shocked

Talk about a COMEDOWN!!!!! Sad

Operating an MC-6 on a local route, such as you described, made about as much sense as using a standard rear-door transit coach on a run between New York and Chicago! Shocked

"NYO"

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2020 7:35 pm Post subject:

When NJT began taking delivery of new MC coaches in the 80's, I had thought them far too big to be used as commuter coaches; in those pre-Internet days, I did not know that GM was no longer building suburban models (even the GM-built RTS was of a transit-design, only)

NJT had 700 MC-9's ("Jersey Cruisers") built at Pembina, all seating 49; no lavatories were included.

In 1987, NJT took delivery of 415 more, also from Pembina; at this late date, the once-large fleets of suburban "heritage" Fishbowls began to vanish rapidly.

A new era in suburban commuter buses had arrived......

"NYO"

traildriver · Joined: 26 Mar 2011 Posts: 2303 Location: South Florida

There was this model, produced from 1982 up until 1997, that extended the lifespan of the 'New Look' body..

https://www.google.com/search?q=gmc+classic+bus&sxsrf=ALeKk01hv4vdF-LpTmSVqWUNaC6PUS_4Hw:1595729874639&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=I6V0GXhnOHYWrM%252C6o_KDPa81t8B4M%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kSBzXuEsfRH0T6qNjaFXoAH8uYrtQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi089aC7enqAhXRMd8KHWtfCS8Q_h0wA3oECBIQBg&biw=1920&bih=937#imgrc=I6V0GXhnOHYWrM

traildriver · Joined: 26 Mar 2011 Posts: 2303 Location: South Florida

For some reason, i coudn't post the wiki link on the gmc classic...kept getting the definition of 'classic' instead...