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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 11:27 am Post subject: |
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This 1969 photo (snapped at the Fresh Pond yards; note the old BRT line poles) represents the twilight of two eras in NYCTA history.
Here we have a train of the iconic, soon-to-be-retired "Standards", and, in the left background, a number of retired MACKS, also, sadly, destined for scrap..........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?88057
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 11:36 am Post subject: |
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Four BMT trains in action here! (Myrtle Avenue)
Those legendary "Standards" indeed dominate this bustling scene (just imagine the intoxicating cacophony of steel wheels screeching against the burnished rails, growling traction motors........aaahh, how much we all took for granted!)
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?6499
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 11:44 am Post subject: |
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Neptune Avenue Avenue (BMT Culver line), 1954.
Note the FORD bus under the El, and the streetcar loading platform at center.....
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?135541
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 11:50 am Post subject: |
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W. 8th St. (BMT Brighton line), 1955.
Front and center, we have two postwar "Oddballs" and an Old Look.......
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?109385
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 11:55 am Post subject: |
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Marcy Avenue, back in the days when there was still so much fascinating diversity on the "Noo Yawk" transit scene!
Up above on the El, we have a BMT work train; down below, a MACK, two trolley buses, and an Old Look.
"Those were the days my friends, we thought they'd never end......."
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?69183
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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Sutphin Avenue (BMT Jamaica El), 1961, after a heavy snowstorm.
Note the new "Tee-Yay" Fishbowl 'neath the El.......
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?6327
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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Here's an undated photo showing restored "Standard" #2775 up at Shore Line, with an SIRT ME-1 in the background.
The unidentified Old Look on the right could use some TLC..........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?57754
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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traildriver
Joined: 26 Mar 2011 Posts: 2452 Location: South Florida
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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W.B. Fishbowl wrote: |
Except for a few details unique to Queens, Pic #154655 looks almost like 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan (especially the Chase building at far right, almost resembling the building on the NE corner of 23rd and "Avenue of the Americas"). |
At that scene in recent years, you’d have a difficult time finding any signs in English…😉
Actually, it was even worse about twenty years ago, until the city enforced ordnances requiring minimal English translations on those signs … |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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traildriver:
A number of years ago, the Sunday edition of the DAILY NEWS had pictures of Flushing over the years.
One photo, from the early 1960's, had well-dressed folks, Old Looks, and English-language signs in profusion.
An early 2000's photo showed a Flushing that I found hard to believe was taken in America; virtually all the signs were in foreign languages.
Someone who only speaks English could easily find themselves hopelessly lost in the area, if they didn't know exactly where they were going.
This is all now making me think of the illustrious William Gibbs McAdoo (Patron Saint of the H&M!); Mr. McAdoo had foreign-language brochures on the H&M and its services distributed to incoming immigrants as their ships entered NY Harbor!
Times indeed change, it would seem...............
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2023 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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Stillwell Avenue, 1977.
In these two views we have Fishbowls on hand; up above, in the first photo, we see a train of soon-to-be-retired prewar IND cars; in the second photo, a train of graffiti-scarred R-27/30's........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154789 (note old streetcar line pole still intact)
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154920 *
*(Note that #8854, though now displaying a new front roller curtain, is still displaying the old "all caps" rear batwing sign)
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 12:56 am Post subject: |
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3rd Avenue El (Houston St., 1955)
Note YELLOW #463 sporting new Old Look-style front end.........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?87466
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2378 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 11:45 am Post subject: |
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Hence a 740 model.
At that time, 'NEW YORK CITY OMNIBUS CORPORATION' was still on the sides, right below the passenger windows; the next year - little over a year after el service along Third Avenue ended and the structure torn down - that same bus would have been relettered with 'FIFTH AVENUE COACH LINES INC.' Those would have been turned into "Snow Fighters" once MaBSTOA took over. This appears to have been kept at the sardine-cramped 12th Street garage. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
As always, appreciate your input and historical info.
I always thought that the updated "Old Look" fronts on those old prewar YELLOWS were quite good-looking; such buses would have been right at home with any of the old Hudson County "indy" companies I grew up with, 60-odd years ago, for certain!
Quick question:
What SURFACE buses ran under the 3rd Avenue El in Manhattan, after the last TARS cars disappeared?
What route(s) run along 3rd Avenue today?
Thanks.....
"NYO"
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