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W.B. Fishbowl
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| NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | | WB: Appreciate this info: this Your's Truly already knew about (thanks to experst such as yourself); what I was referring was the QUITE tiny "stoa" lettering just behind the front door (here Your's Truly is referring to what the buses carried in the later years-using the RTS "Torpedo" to allude to what I had been thinking of)-------personally-I think that when the last of the "OA" badges disappeared-as well as the styish script crowning the windows-the original "stoa" era ended-----------"NYO" |
It was sometime in the mid-to-late '80's, then, if that's what you're asking - by later in the decade I saw some repainted "Torpedos" that had been on the streets since the early '80's, once mentioned " 'stoa" near the front door, now mentioned "Tee-Yay" in that same small print. Of course, everything of that ilk disappeared once the "angled MTA in a circle" logo premiered in 1993-94, replacing the 'M'. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2024 10:32 am Post subject: |
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| WB: Thanks----this is what I was curious about; that was indeed when the last "separate identity" for "stoa" disappeared-------"NYO" |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Just think of the early days of "stoa"----here we had a new operator on the "Noo Yawk" transit scene-----an operation that indeed inherited a huge and colorful "heritage fleet" (recall only a handful of ex-FACL/ST "Jetson" Fishbowls were included in this huge "inheritance")-----------think also of how elderly the square-window Old Looks were by that date-along with the ex-SURFACE "Pattons" (strange-SURFACE did not roster any of the larger C-49/C-50 types)----------"NYO" |
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MaBSTOA 15
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Surface operated approximately forty-seven C-49-DT. And of course the 25 C-50-DT they inherited from Fifth Avenue Coach. |
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W.B. Fishbowl
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Location: New York, New York, USA
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| MaBSTOA 15 wrote: | | Surface operated approximately forty-seven C-49-DT. And of course the 25 C-50-DT they inherited from Fifth Avenue Coach. |
Yep. And those C-49-DT's were what were put to pasture once the 1967 order of A/C batwing Fishbowl "Bullets" came to " 'stoa" depots in both boroughs they served. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Fellows: As I had not seen pictures (to date) of SURFACE C-49/50s-I had thought that they only rostered the C-45/C-47 types (photos of these two types abound); the photos Your's Truly has seen of the bigger "Pattons" were those rostered by the "Bee-oh-Tee"/"Tee-Yay"/FACCo; thanks again for this info-------"NYO" |
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