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MaBSTOA 15 · Age: 72 Joined: 27 Feb 2013 Posts: 1188

A timetable from North Avenue Transportation Company bus rote 5

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2025 3:17 pm Post subject:

AWESOME FIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shocked

The "Number Five", (as we always referred to the line) stopped right on our corner (13th Street and Hudson Boulevard) in Union City, just steps from our front stoop!

In earlier years, I well recall Old Looks, WHITES, and MACKS on this run.

Mom and I used this line for many, many years; by the time we moved out to West Orange in 1971, the "5" was mostly Fishbowls, but you'd see Old Looks during the rush hours

Cannot believe the last time we rode this line was back in 1971! Shocked

GREAT FIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very Happy

"NYO"

["HUDSON COUNTY BOULEVARD"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2025 3:25 pm Post subject:

"Number 5" memories..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153651

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153650 *

(courtesty: nycsubway.org)

*Note that the WHITE is displaying the familiar "5" placard; the MACK alongside was operating (to Nungessers) on the #1.

Both routes stopped on our corner when I was growing up, and we rode both lines frequently......ahhh, the memories! Very Happy

"NYO"

["1 UNION CITY-NUNGESSERS"]

["5 NEW YORK"]

MaBSTOA 15 · Age: 72 Joined: 27 Feb 2013 Posts: 1188

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153651

According to the Ohio Museum of Transportation production list this is a GM T6H-5306A serial number 0135 delivered in May 1969 and listed as Norma H. Lippmann North Hudson County Boulevard.

In fact serial numbers 133-134 and 136-137 were delivered at the same time to NHCB but with four different individual names before the NHCB title.

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2025 4:54 pm Post subject:

MaBSTOA 15:

Thanks for posting this info! Wink

Since at least the 1930s, the buses of the NHBL and SHBL all had numbers with a "B" prefix.

When a certain bus was retired, its number was used on its replacement; thus, several different buses throughout the years would all have used the same number.

For example, I well remember seeing "B-118" adorning an Old Look, at least TWO Fishbowls (one ex-Cleveland), and a GRUMMAN! Shocked

It's all so long ago, now..........

"NYO"

["HUDSON COUNTY BOULEVARD"]