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Recalling the Triboro Bridge "TB" Route

 
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MaBSTOA 15



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2022 8:26 pm    Post subject: Recalling the Triboro Bridge "TB" Route Reply with quote

New York City Omnibus #425, Yellow Coach model 740, operating on route "TB" Triboro Bridge Line.


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2022 8:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

VERY NICE photo of a REAL bus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wink

Back in the early/mid-1960's, antiques like #425 were still commonplace with the Hudson County area-"indies"; I'm glad I can remember riding them! Very Happy

The "TB" had to be a a (more or less) "obscure" line, given the fact that there only a few photos of buses assigned to that line.

I'm willing to wager that most (if not all) MTA drivers these days can even recall the "TB".......

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2022 10:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
VERY NICE photo of a REAL bus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm willing to wager that most (if not all) MTA drivers these days can even recall the "TB".......

"NYO"


I'm sure that you'd win that bet because it's been almost 48 years since the TB designation was retired and replaced. BTW, folks in the photo are boarding on 29th Street just above Hoyt Avenue North, the last stop before the bridge.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 31, 2022 11:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

X-Astorian:

48 years ago, Your's Truly was a senior in high school(!!) Shocked

In the nycsubway.org bus photo archives, there might be only five or so photos showing buses assigned to the "TB"; a few of these photos show the buses (Fishbowls) carrying empty front sign boxes........

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2022 6:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The 'TB' route, in NYCO days (and presumably after 1956 when it became the NYCO Division of Fifth Avenue Coach Lines) was basically concentrated out of 146th Street depot; I seemed to notice bus numbers (such as 425) consistent with what that garage had and was used on other routes such as #7 Broadway, Columbus and Lenox Avenues. In the first decade of MaBSTOA, its depot assignment occasionally pingponged between there and 100th Street - where it was assigned as of 48 years ago, a few months before the big route renumberings. It has the distinction of having been the only NYCO route to have been started up from scratch and not either a converted New York Railways streetcar route (all routes numbered 1 through 11 and 13 through 16, plus 18 and 20) or an acquisition of a route franchise from another company (as were the 12 - Spring/Delancey, 17 - 79th Street and 19 - 96th Street lines in 1936, and 21 - Houston/Avenue C and 22 Pitt/Ridge in 1940).

After it was split up into M34 (Lexington Avenue - Wards Island - Randalls Island), M35 (Lexington Avenue - Astoria Boulevard) and Bx21 (Bruckner Boulevard - Astoria Boulevard), the now three routes were assigned to 132nd Street depot. A shame no known photos exist from after the mid-1974 route renumberings. At least one of the photos on the nycsubway.org site have the front roll sign incorrectly listed as "M102" (itself a renumbering in the big 1974 change, previously known as {M}101A). As to those three numbers, the only photo evidence has been through some front roll signs from 132nd Street (1975 blue and 1976 blue/red) and side signs (as once put up on eBay; Yours Truly had the foresight to save all the images from same).
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 05, 2022 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The TB route signs from the batwings


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 05, 2022 4:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The "HOLY GRAIL" of vintage bus roller curtains!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked

Lucky, indeed, is the fellow who owns such a rare and beautiful artifact from another era!! Very Happy

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 05, 2022 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And then, portions of side roll signs struck in 1974 after the major route renumberings . . . notice how, unlike most MaBSTOA routes, these mention the end destinations a la 'Tee-Yay' routes. (On the one spotlighting Bx21, M107 is still there in spite of it being discontinued around this point and the easternmost point of its route being incorporated into a new 106th Street branch of the M19 96th Street Crosstown.)


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 06, 2022 10:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is the tail end of the new look side destination sign curtains for Manhattan based buses


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 06, 2022 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MaBSTOA 15 wrote:
This is the tail end of the new look side destination sign curtains for Manhattan based buses


From what I gathered, this was part of a side rollsign for MaBSTOA Manhattan routes struck around 1971. It has since unfortunately been cut up by the person who put that section up for sale on eBay. I say about the year because the "2 5th & Madison Via Lenox" was gone, and presumably one of the sections had the newer "101A 3rd-Lex-Lenox Aves" (I assume that's what the sign would have read) nestled between 101 and 103. That, plus the new M23X express route.
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