BusTalk

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 1:22 pm Post subject:

traildriver/All:

Another fascinating aspect of the bus hobby is that it can be, and is, quite diverse.

Some of us are interested in all buses; others only are interested in the vintage models.

Others in the hobby are very much into the latest models; then, too, there are those of us who really getting into the "nuts-and-bolts" aspect of the bus hobby, reveling in model designations, vehicle widths, and so forth.

Like railroading, the bus/transit hobby is one that is at once diverse and intriguing....not to mention a whole busload of FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very Happy

It is up to us to try to keep the hobby going, as best we can, for as long as we can.

This is a rich, diverse hobby with so much to offer to all age groups....... Wink

"NYO"

traildriver · Joined: 26 Mar 2011 Posts: 2701 Location: South Florida

Well said, NYO--my sentiments, exactly.
It is not only public transportation, either...I am also into 'cars' as in automobiles. Go to your typical owner's club, and it too, seems to be an "old man's club". Younger people in general (again there are exception's), just don't seem that into cars. Many 'Millennial's' don't even have a driver's license..

I'll never forget how much I wanted mine...I made sure I had it on my sixteenth birthday! Cool

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2018 5:51 pm Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2020 7:01 pm Post subject:

.......just imagine what the legendary SCENICRUISER might look like today, if it were still in production......(!!) Shocked

Then again, perhaps some things are better left to one's own fertile imagination........ Wink

"NYO"

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2024 11:17 am Post subject:

Reflections...........

Regarding streetcar/electric rail preservationists, with each passing year, there are less and less men walking the earth who once had a "personal" connection to the cars which now reside in museum collections.

The last TARS conduit streetcars in Manhattan ran in 1946; the last B&QT streetcars in 1956.

Any then-adult enthusiast would, today, be well into their 90s, or, sadly, long-since passed on to that big car house in the sky. Sad

This now holds true for bus preservationists.

Each year, these dedicated fellows see their ranks thin out even more; with each passing week, there are fewer and fewer gentlemen alive who would be able to recall the preserved buses when they were still in revenue service.

Like their rail dedicated preservationist counterparts, one day, they will have all passed from the scene.

As with many long-established transportation museums today, seeing their old membership steadily decline and disappear, and little "new blood" coming into the ranks, it is all, sadly, quite sobering........ Sad

"NYO"

["5 NEW YORK"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 9:25 pm Post subject:

Sad..........

More and more, modern LRV's (the hi-tech ancestor of the trolley) resemble nothing more than giant, mutated caterpillars/serpents; some of these are downright frightening.

In Europe and Asia, most modern LRVs indeed more resemble giant insects than any sort of public transit vehicle (in Italy in France, in particular, most modern LRV units are light-years beyond bizarre. Shocked

I've seen five-section articulated buses that look like massive caterpillars from a far-off galaxy. Razz

Years ago, "modern" meant "sleek" and "stylish".

Today, however, "modern" translates into "bizarre" and "hideous".

I simply HATE these crawling, slithering electrified serpents....... Evil or Very Mad

"NYO"

*(Those that run on French systems I refer to as "Le Escargot Electrique") Razz

Cyberider · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 1137 Location: Tempe, AZ

NYO:

I'll second that. About 20 years ago when they first started putting those slanty headlights on cars, a priest friend of mine said they looked like "angry insects." They've only gotten worse since then and even more angry. It was bad enough having them on cars but now they're on trucks, buses, and trains too. Kind of goes along with "modern art." Art used to be something beautiful but most of today's "art" wouldn't even have been considered art back in the day.

The PCC's were so beautiful and the LRV's so ugly and getting uglier. Ugh! Just compare what ran on the City Subway or the Shaker Rapid then compared to what runs now, to name only a few.

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2024 2:53 pm Post subject:

Cyberider:

God, I HATE those "slanted headlights" (your priest friend was RIGHT!)......they INDEED do make ANY vehicle look DEMENTED and hell-bent on EVIL!(WHO designs these monstrocities?) Shocked

I've seen far toomany photos of LRVs in Italy and France that look more like evil serpents or creeping insects from some far-off galaxy.......thay actually SCARE me!!!!! Shocked

The PCC's (like Old Looks and Fishbowls) were TIMELESS.....sleek, modern, and HANDSOME! Very Happy

Those days, sadly, are now long gone....... Razz

"NYO"

["ST. LOUIS CAR COMPANY"]

Cyberider · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 1137 Location: Tempe, AZ

This video of the last day of PCC's on the Newark City Subway just popped up on my YouTube feed. How appropriate! Here's the beauty but I'll skip the beast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBUP1SscO9w

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2024 8:59 am Post subject:

Cyberider · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 1137 Location: Tempe, AZ

Newark really "missed the boat" letting their PCC's go. I bet some of them are now in SF, aren't they?

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2024 3:43 pm Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2024 3:46 pm Post subject:

See also:

https://streetcar.org

["MUNI"]

Cyberider · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 1137 Location: Tempe, AZ

Too bad some organization doesn't buy those cars while they're still salvageable, if they are. Not enough PCC's left to let them sit idle. Yep, the PS livery was attractive both on the PCC's and buses.