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Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2019 10:27 pm Post subject: Now it's time to say good-bye...to the faithful RTS..... |
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Fellows:
Through another board, I read that, sadly, by May, the once-commonplace RTS will be forever gone from the teeming streets of Gotham.
So hard to believe that the very first hit the streets just about 40 years ago (where does the time go?)
Like to many of us, I took the RTS for granted, and only started to appreciate them in their twilight years.
While I never got to ride an MTA RTS in the city, I did, a number of times, ride an ex-MTA unit on ACADEMY's #22 HILLSIDE, back in the later 90's.
I also rode those that NJT operated, starting around 1997.
We all knew the end of the fabled RTS was coming....but, now that that sad day is almost here, we come to realize that another colorful era in New York City bus history is about to come to a close.......memories, memories.....
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Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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This RTS (at least to me) seems to look quite proud of itself (is it, perhaps, that determined stance of confidence?)........
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3462
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Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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Hard to believe that the winter of 2018/2019 was the last winter that the timeless RTS would see in service in New York......
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1370
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Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2019 12:02 am Post subject: |
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At the time of the 2008 Bus Rodeo, this RTS was "just another bus" in the MTA fleet......
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2589
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Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2019 12:17 am Post subject: |
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Ft. Washington & 193rd, 1983....who amongst us here, at the time, ever thought of such a scene, one day in the future, being fondly (and nostalgically) recalled......
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?765
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Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2019 12:29 am Post subject: |
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I particularly like this 1983 shot of #2218 making the appointed rounds at Broadway & 159th St.; it just has a distinct "Noo Yawk" feel that I really love......
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?768
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Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2019 12:32 am Post subject: |
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Just another wintry day in the Big Apple, 1983.
Again, such wintertime scenes, featuring the humble RTS, are now relegated to memory......
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?776
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