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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 11:36 am Post subject: |
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Here's an interesting "comparison" photo taken at the Rockaway Parkway yard, back in 1969.............
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?80157
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 11:49 am Post subject: |
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A HUGE difference (to say the least) between the "big and bold" roller curtains used on MSBA's GRUMMAN buses, and the electronic signs used on the "Em-Tee-Yay's" own "Borough Bombers".............
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156580 (note the "N35" sign is both upper and lower case; the bus on the right has an "all caps" curtain )
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153277
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2508 Location: New York, New York, USA
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2508 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, that second one dated to about 1980 or '81 when the R-40's ran on the CC - and definitely post-adding on all those safety features so people passing between cars, if they lost their balance, didn't fall off the train. Here's an actual post-rebuild:
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?27768
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
Funny, I can only remember the "Artens" (aka "Thunderbirds") on the "CC"/"C", and, for a years years after the "Thunderbirds" were retired, the "R-27/30s"
I DO recall, after I graduated in 1975, riding "Anines" on the "CC" (then rush hours only); I knew that, when the noisy old "Arnines" were coming out to play, yet another rush hour was about to get underway.
Too, there was a brief "swap" in the early 80's, where the "Artens" were switched to the "E", and "R-44s/46s" on the "CC" (Your's Truly, of course, switched over to the "E" during this brief period!)
I can also recall, several times, riding the "F to and from Coney Island, aboard a "Slant 40", back in the early 1980s (that large window on the storm door sure made for a great view!)
Too, regarding new roller curtains with both upper and lower case letters, I wonder who was the whiz who came up with that idea?
I LOVED those HUGE rear exit door signs on the batwing buses; those signs practically SHOUTED out to all potential passengers, as to what line the bus was operating on!
Ahhh, where have the years gone........
"NYO"
["BUS-O-RAMA"]
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W.B. Fishbowl
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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And paint jobs . . . |
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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In this wintry scene from 1977, we see "Jetson" #2017 still carrying its classic, old-style roller curtain, while working the "Q44"............
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153230
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | In this wintry scene from 1977, we see "Jetson" #2017 still carrying its classic, old-style roller curtain, while working the "Q44"............
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153230
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
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Make that the Q44VP - Vleigh Place, later the Q74 until being eliminated in the June 2010 cutbacks. Both the 44VP and 44A terminated at Kew Gardens. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2024 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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A-Astorian:
Thanks for sharing this additional info; being from New Jersey, I was not at all aware of this.
I always found Queens to be a quite interesting borough, not just because of the various subway routes (and the NYCTA/MTA bus routes), but also, for the several independent bus companies that once were based there, and, also, the LIRR and the Roosevelt Island Tram............
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