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PostPosted: Fri Feb 06, 2026 1:07 am    Post subject: NOT your ordinary TDH-5304 Reply with quote
Indeed, NOT your "average" Fishbowl............. Shocked Wink

https://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27515

https://www.ctfiremuseum.org/motorcoach/1712

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 06, 2026 1:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
What might have been..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?10979

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?10980

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 06, 2026 4:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Makes one wonder if, but for the 1960 elimination of trolleybuses, the "Tee-Yay" would have had some of their Brooklyn Fishbowls so fitted for "soivice" on such lines.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 06, 2026 5:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
W.B. Fishbowl wrote:
Makes one wonder if, but for the 1960 elimination of trolleybuses, the "Tee-Yay" would have had some of their Brooklyn Fishbowls so fitted for "soivice" on such lines.


W.B.:

Very good point!

I'm also thinking of the massive cuts (also abandonments) to commuter rail service jere in New Jersey during the mid-late 1960s.

Picturing now PSNJ (as well as the other "indy" companies then in operation) equipping some of their Fishbowls with "hi-rail" equipment, allowing them to provide railbus service on multiple lines which now longer had any commuter services......

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2026 9:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Today's bus operations in Connecticut..........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CT_Transit_New_Haven

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2026 9:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Fleet photos........

https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/Connecticut_Transit

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2026 1:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Also of interest............

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Company

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2026 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
This rare 1937 YELLOW operated for the "CONNECTICUT COMPANY" until the early 1950s; this rare relic now resides at the IRM........

https://www.irm.org/player/connco590/

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2026 1:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Preserved historic CCo buses (Fishbowl photos, info).........

https://cptdb.ca/topic/19840-connecticut-companycrl-preserved-transit-buses/
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2026 9:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Back in the summer of '81 (if memory serves me correctly), I was up at Branford (Shore Line) one summer Saturday where I snapped several historic CCo. buses that had been on display.

I recall,a square-window Old Look, a paired-window version, and a Fishbowl; all seemed to be well-cared for, and running under their own power...... Very Happy

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