BusTalk A Community Discussing Buses and Bus Operations Worldwide!    BusTalk Main FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups BusTalk Galleries   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Search found 2547 matches BusTalk Forum Index Author Message   Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... W.B. Fishbowl Replies: 302 Views: 8441 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Fri May 24, 2024 6:21 pm   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... "Tube stock" measurements....... Between 1923 and 1983, car measurements (length) ran the gamut from 51 feet and 58 feet; between 1938 and 1972, all rolling stock was 52 feet in length. ...   Topic: MaBSTOA T6H-5309A (and El replacement buses) W.B. Fishbowl Replies: 1045 Views: 470977 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Fri May 24, 2024 4:38 pm   Subject: MaBSTOA T6H-5309A (and El replacement buses) On eBay now (time sensitive) is a set of annual reports. It was specifically mentioned in the "Tee-Yay's" 1958 annual report that the 9000-series "Shermans" - the last of that lot ...   Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... W.B. Fishbowl Replies: 302 Views: 8441 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Thu May 23, 2024 3:02 pm   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... With their railroad-type roofs, the "DISTRICT" line's (sub-surface) original "B" stock more closely resembled American rapid transit rolling stock than any other that once operated ...   Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... W.B. Fishbowl Replies: 302 Views: 8441 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Thu May 23, 2024 7:07 am   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... I often wonder now if the "ogee" roofs of the H&M "B" through "J" cars inspired, at least in part, the IRT's 1938 WF cars (recall, also, that type of roof was later u ...   Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... W.B. Fishbowl Replies: 302 Views: 8441 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 9:33 pm   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... W.B.: See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_infrastructure *Note photo (on right) showing the tremendous difference in the dimensions between a "sub-surface" tr ...   Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... W.B. Fishbowl Replies: 302 Views: 8441 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 5:15 pm   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... About the 1926 car modernization (or "modernisation") article, the picture of one of them looked like it could have been an influence on the design of the "Bee-Em-Tee's" last car b ...   Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... W.B. Fishbowl Replies: 302 Views: 8441 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 9:25 am   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... (SEE PREVIOUS LINKS) Also of interest: https://www.smartsign.com/blog/short-history-new-york-sihnage/ Had to look inside the site for the actual link: https://www.smartsign.com/blog/shor ...   Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... W.B. Fishbowl Replies: 302 Views: 8441 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 2:33 pm   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... Yep, those are the ones. Very much so.   Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! W.B. Fishbowl Replies: 252 Views: 8014 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 10:54 am   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! OK, let's set a target date for late 2082........ Like I said . . . after we're all dead and gone.   Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... W.B. Fishbowl Replies: 302 Views: 8441 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 10:52 am   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... Here are several views depicting the "Bee-Em-Tee's 95th Street station (terminal) Note how the elaborate mosaic work still hints at the "Eye-Are-Tee"....... https://www.nycsubway. ...   Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! W.B. Fishbowl Replies: 252 Views: 8014 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 2:47 am   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! W.B.: Your thoughts on when the next section of the SAS (aka "stubway") might be completed, and how far the next extension will reach? Just imagine if the SAS had opened in 1955, when ...   Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! W.B. Fishbowl Replies: 252 Views: 8014 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon May 20, 2024 7:29 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! A long decline....... Going by the photos at nycsubway.org. the "Bee-Em-Tee's" cavernous TSQ station had been quite decrepit and and unkempt for many years, even well over 50 years ago. ...   Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! W.B. Fishbowl Replies: 252 Views: 8014 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon May 20, 2024 7:23 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! W.B.: Agreed Recall the early 1970's IC collision out in "Shik-aga"; a new lightweight double-deck MU was "tapped" by a 1926 "battleship" (MU); new car involved was ...   Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... W.B. Fishbowl Replies: 302 Views: 8441 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon May 20, 2024 7:21 pm   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... W.B.: And DON'T get me started on the "Occulus", which resembles nothing more than a "pop art" whale skeleton......yecchhhh! "Monstrocities", indeed........and this ...   Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! W.B. Fishbowl Replies: 252 Views: 8014 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon May 20, 2024 4:52 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! W.B.: Ahhh, "rivets"! NO WONDER those classic prewar cars looked like (and were BUILT like) BATTLESHIPS! 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