BusTalk

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(SEE PREVIOUS POST)

Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Duluth (click on second link)

This was, as I'd mentioned, the last vessel launched at the BNY.......

"NYO"

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As an added "bonus" in these two nostalgic, long-ago views of "da 'Moit' "at Navy Street, we can also glimpse a "Kramden" and a Fishbowl.........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?117125

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?6782

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["B.M.T. LINES"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

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W.B.:

As always, appreciated the info.....ALWAYS something new (and interesting!) to learn!

Re; The "BROOKLYN NANY YARD" book I had mentioned; there is a rare 1916 photo of the "USS ARIZONA" (whose hallowed name will forvever be linked to that horrific December 7th, 1941) on her maiden voyage, passing under the Brooklyn Bridge, looking towards Manhattan.

If you look closely at the south side of the span, you can clearly make out a deck roof Brooklyn-bound streetcar, as well as the line poles with their bracket arms (this photo is, in fact, the only one in the book to be "transit related")

Curious.......

When the "BNY" was still operated by the Navy in the early 1960s, what "Tee-Yay" bus routes might have carried shipyard "woikers" to and from the yard?

Nearest subway?

"NYO"

["BNY"]

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'The Greatest Generation"............

In the book I had mentioned, "THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD", there are many photos of draftsmen, machinists, and other highly-skilled designers fabricating parts, as well as working on their hands and knees, working on complex templates.

JUST LOOK at what these highly-skilled men accomplished WITHOUT any sort of computer programs, software, or, for that matter, ANY sort of hi-tech assistance.

You HAD to have TREMENDOUS respect for these gifted, skilled, and dedicated fellows!

"NYO"

["NEW YORK NAVY YARD"]

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Further (regarding subway/streetcar/bus lines operating near the "BNY")..............

Were any of the B&QT's trolleybus lines in reasonably close proximity to the "BNY"?

"NYO"

["B&QT"]

["NYCTA"]

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The "USS ARIZONA", Brooklyn's most famous battleship-(note the photo of this noble ship surrounded by a steaming, hooting conglomeration of classic "Noo Yawk" tugs (probably there's not many tugs today in all of "Noo Yawk" harbor!)

This proud, hallowed ship is easily the most revered battleship in US Navy history, and understandably so (hard to believe that the 83rd anniversary of Pearl Harbor is but a few days away).......let us never forget this iconic ship.......and her courageous crewmen.............

https://turnstiletours.com/uss-arizona-brooklyns-most-famous-battleship/

["BNY"]

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Interesting little book..........

Just received my "IMAGES OF RAIL" softcover, "BROOKLYN STREETCARS"; put out by the BERA.

An excellent book (2008) with many rare photos I have never seen before, lavishly documenting a long-gone Brooklyn.

Interestingly, there are only a small number of PCC photos (most photos are of the older, "standard" cars.

Some of the busiest lines once ran on FORTY SECOND headways, and nearly THREE HUNDRED streetcars an hour once crossed the Brooklyn Bridge! (are ya listening, Mr. "Jan-OH"?)

Interesting photo of the trolley-hating Mayor "Lah-Guardia" cutting the ribbon at Park Row in 1936, celebrating the start of PCC serbice over the span(!!)

There is one interesting bus photo here, taken just outside the Maspeth depot in 1949; an "8000" series Peter Witt is passing by the depot, and we see a new postwar "Oddball" TWIN poking its nose out of the gloom of the interior, while another "Oddball" is parked alongside the depot.

There are also a few interesting bus/trolleybus photos also.

All in all, a great little book!

"NYO"

["B&QT"]

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Quite telling.........

In Brooklyn, the postwar "Oddballs" helped to replace streetcars......how ironic that buses that ran for less than a decade replaced streetcars that had been running for MANY decades.........

"NYO"

["FLATBUSH"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

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W.B;

Just consulted my copy of "NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT SYSTEM BUS & TROLLEY COACH FLEET" (Greller), and, from what I gathered, the postwar "Oddball" (TWINS) were gas-powered, unlike those rostered by the "See-Tee-Yay"...........

"NYO"

["1448"]

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Recalling the long-ago days of "Oddballs" and streetcars in Brooklyn.............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?140880

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?141997

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["52 GATES AV"]

[MaBSTOA 15]

"IMAGES OF RAIL" softcover, "BROOKLYN STREETCARS"; put out by the BERA.

These books are great. They have several others regarding Queens and Manhattan streetcars. As well as a series on the LIRR.

By the way, on page 122-123 you can see the Perry turnstiles on both the old and PCC cars.

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MaBSTOA 15:

Good to see you back, my friend, you've been missed!!!

I am currently waiting on the other "IMAGES OF RAIL" book I ordered last week, on TARS; THIS should be a good one....looking forward to getting my copy!

I have QUITE a few of these books, especially those dealing with operations in Boston and Chicago, and SF's famed, iconic cable cars.

How ironic, that the postwar TWIN COACHES (aka "Oddballs") that helped to replace the streetcars, disappeared roughly about the same time that the last B&QT streetcars did (late 1956)

Certainly, the Old Looks (and MACKS) lasted longer, perhaps not all that surprisingly............

"NYO"

["B&QT"]

["BoT"]

["NYCTA"]

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Brooklyn, circa-1950............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156392

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

This impressive lineup of "Oddballs" were obviously running on a charter (note crowds on the right)

Also, note streetcar tracks and overhead..........

"NYO"

["BoT"]