BusTalk

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

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Mott Avenue/Far Rockaway (undated photo, circa-1970; note the repainted R-10s)

Again, what we see here is quite reminiscent of the NYW&B...............

httpa://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?114198

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["A"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Westchester Yard, 2011; note the variety of MoW equipment here, along with revenue rolling stock..............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?118659

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["MTA"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

These two interesting views at Westchester Yard (2013) are reminiscent of the heyday of the old Els, with their complex, sinewy junctions..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?139055

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?139055

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["INTERBOROUGH"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

New Utrecht Avenue (Sea Beach line), 2009........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?108528

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["4 SEA BEACH EXPRESS"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Date this nostalgic, long-ago scene to 1958...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?75649

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["B.M.T. LINES"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

The interlocking steel ganglia of the more complex elevated rapid transit lines is indeed quite evident in this 1942 scene (Crescent Street)..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?70706

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["TRAINS TO MANHATTAN"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Crescent Street, forty years later (1982).............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?69891

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["190"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

In this circa-1980s photo, the former "Bee-Em-Tee" elevated structure (at Sutphin Boulevard) depicted here has long since disappeared, like the RTS buses seen passing beneath it...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?103846

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["1328"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

This early 1981 photo, obviously taken just after a heavy snowfall, has a snow-dusted train of "Standards" (aka "Brooklyn Battleships") rumbling along on the now-demolished BMT Jamaica El (at Sutphin Avenue)

Down below, note the "Jetson" Fishbowl...............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?6327

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["New York City Transit Authority"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Fordham Road, 1973 (note several Fishbowls on the right; another can be seen in the distance; note also the tower for the now-abandoned "Toid Aven-oo" El)..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?28704

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["Manhattan & Bronx Surface Operating Authority"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Here are several interesting (undated) "heavy duty" track replacement photos on the "Eye-Are-Tee's elevated Jerome Avenue line.........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?116055

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?116057

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?116051

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?116049

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?116047

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["6"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

168th Street, Jamaica.

30 years separate these photos (2007/1977)............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?60474

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?43028

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["QJ"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

"LOOK TO THE STREETS" (IRT West Line line @125th Street (1978/2007)................

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?7890

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?79632

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["TO IRT WEST SIDE TRAINS"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

IRT Pelham line (Elder Avenue), 1964.

Keep your eyes peeled for the "Sherman" heading away from the camera, in the middle distance, underneath the El............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?50972

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["IRT LINES"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Willets & 147th Street, 1973.

This is a rare "by chance" photo; note the ancient "custom built" work motor up on the El.................

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154046
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"stoa" buses "under da El", 1973..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154044

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154038

(all photos courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["MaBSTOA"]