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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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MaBSTOA 15
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Several replies combine into one posting
(sorry for the long delay in responding)
First, your destination sign that reads "15 Limited Stops", in my opinion, came from either a FACCO TDH-5106 (with the protruding sign box) or a TDH-5301. Because that white tab on the edge that says "16 Elm" was only found on the new looks and possibly on the last 5106s built for FACCO. The tabs were used to indicate to the driver through the peep hole on the destination door cover the sign that was displayed on the front of the bus. The reading before the Limited one was "15 Fifth Avenue Jackson Heights" (its tab would read 15 LTD) and the one after would be "16 Elmhurts Crosstown" (its tab would read 20 57 St xtown). If I'm correct - you have a piece of history!
Secondly, I love those side signs from these buses (I have a complete Manhattan roll from a 5300 series MaBSTOA bus) and the batwings! Love the wording 16 34 Street Xtown - only in New York!
Thirdly, the photo of #6000, a Flxible-Twin Coach model FT-35-D, a demo from 1954, operated in the Bronx (as seen here) then it was transferred to Westchester Street Transportation in 1956.
Finally, the Twin Coach with the rooftop hump is a model 27G from 1939-1942 operating from the Mt. Vernon division of Westchester Street Transportation on their route "C - 5th Avenue - Mt. Vernon"
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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MaBSTOA 15:
First of all, great to see you "back in action", here! 
Secondly, as always, I greatly appreciate your taking the time to reply "in depth" as you do, with so much fascinating historical information, especially regarding rollsigns! 
One of the things that has always endeared MaBSTOA to Your's Truly is that it was, literally, getting "two for the price of one", meaning, with MaBSTOA operations, it ws like you were getting a "double dose" of the "Tee-Yay"
So distinctly, to this day, that handsome, stylish "MANHATTAN & BRONX SURFACE OPERATING AUTHORITY" script over the windows still remains as clear as yesterday in my memories.
Sadly, today, the MaBSTOA era is no more....but, at least, will always live on in the memories of those of us "old timers" who can still remember the "olden days"..........
"NYO"
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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Retro nostalgia on 125th St. (note the famed "APOLLO" on the right)......
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155970
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
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kdr3bt
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RE: This photo, dating to about 1951, shows a TARS car on the "#7" line, with a postwar TWIN about to pass it (bus is on the "B" route); note the partially paved over crossover in the foreground......
That is the Fageol TC I remember when I was a kid growing up in Mt. Vernon.
This is at the intersection of South 2nd Avenue and East 1st Street.
There is a foot bridge at the end of 2nd Ave. going over the then New Haven RR tracks. The Mt. Vernon (East) station was right on the other side.
The Daily Argus building - Mt. Vernon's daily newspaper - is the building with the pillars.
The streetcar is heading back (west) to Yonkers. It will cross the New Haven RR at what is called Scott's bridge to connect it to Mt. Vernon Avenue and then Yonkers Avenue.
It belongs to the Yonkers Railroad - later Transit - company.
When the YRR went to motor coaches, all of them were Macks. The had a fire in the garage near the Hudson River. I remember a Mack new look that replaced some of the burned beyond repair Mack coaches.
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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kdr3bt:
I thought you might enjoy that photo, and hoped that it would bring back some good memories.
You mentioned New Look MACKS; here is one (Yonkers) at Broadway & 242nd St., when the World's Fair was being held at Flushing Meadows, back in 1964
In later years, some of these New Look MACKS went to a New Jersey "indy", "BLUE & WHITE", and were operated on the "#97"; I took several pictures of these unique buses at the company's lot, on Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen, back in 1974.
These buses were the only "New Look" MACKS to operate in Hudson County........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155951
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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Here's another circa-1950 photo of a TARS (Route #7) car at the beginning of the line at E. 1st St. & S. 2nd Avenue, in Mount Vernon (this photo is in conjunction with the one I posted earlier here, a postwar TWIN COACH bus can be seen approaching in the background; this was probably the same bus seen swinging around the TARS car in the earlier photo)
Again, note the partially paved over crossover in the foreground......
https://www.newdavesrailpix.com/tars/htm/tars160.htm
(courtesy: davesrailpix)
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