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Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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Rare old station signs like this recall the long-lost era when so many long-defunct (and forgotten) regional carriers once crisscrossed our nation (this beautiful 1930s sign reminds me of the late Jim Lehrer!)
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/389350330268886067/
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:13 am Post subject: |
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Here's a particularly handsome sign for "PEERLESS STAGES" (the bus recalls the hulking YELLOW PD/PG models of the early 1940s)..............
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/389350330263270970/
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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traildriver:
Thanks for this info; I was not aware of this development.
I've always considered VanHool an "exotic" bus, as they are, indeed, not to be seen in my area.
I DID, however, some years ago, every once in awhile see an older model VanHool on a charter passing through town; oddly, the bus had no company identification or number displayed whatsoever, so I have no idea what company it might have been operating for.
I still refer to it as the "mystery bus".
It will be interesting to see what the future holds for the company.....
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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If my memory serves me correctly, the "mystery" VanHool I had previously mentioned was a Model T-900 (I know that "WESTERN TRAILWAYS" once operated several of this type, back in later 1990s/early 2000s)
VERMONT TRANSIT also operated similar VanHools............
"NYO"
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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Here's a nostalgic picture of a VERMONT TRANSIT 4106; note "SCENICRUISER SERVICE" emblazoned above the windows.............
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/531213718529696593/
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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Just received my DVD copy of Glen Campbell's 1970 film "NORWOOD"; there are a number of scenes featuring CONTINENTAL Eagles (exterior and interior shots!)
There is even a brief glimpse of the "Port-Of-Authority's original 8th Avenue facade, as a bonus!
In one scene, one bus is signed "JACKSONVILLE" (North Carolina); in another, "TEXARKANA" (another scene has an EAGLE signed "MEMPHIS")
One nighttime scene (MAGNIFICENT seeing the illuminated "CONTINENTAL TRAILWAYS" lettering beneath the rear windows!) shows an EAGLE pulling up to a corner stop; on a pole there is a yellow metal sign, with the map of the United States, with "TRAILWAYS" emblazoned across it, and "BUS STOP" beneath it.
In one lunch counter/coffee shop scene, in the background, is a large cutout of a uniformed CONTINENTAL hostess holding a sign behind the counter.
And those harmonic EAGLE horns.....and the tantalizing "HIIIIssssss" of the air brakes..........aaahh, the sweet nostalgia!
"NYO"
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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Here's one timeless scene from 1970's "NORWOOD", showing Glen's outbound "EAGLE", with a suburban Fishbowl just behind (note the "Buffalo" taking a brief respite from daily chores on the left!)
https://pics.imcdb.org/26849/backgr6.7.jpg
(courtesy: imcdb.org)
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