BusTalk

[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

On this day in 1960........

The "Tee-Yay" retired the last of the TRUE " 'lectric buses" in the fleet ("Look, Ma! No batteries!")

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153305

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156124

["47-TOMPKINS"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

I am sure that the "Tee-Yay" was indeed also looking to "score points" with the riding public, in replacing the "old-fashioned" trolleybuses with their "ugly, unsightly wires" with sleek, new, modern diesel buses.

Was just thinking: NOT ONE photo at nycsubway.org showing trolleybuses being "woiked" on, or laying over at "Boigan" Street.

Important to remember also that the B&QT trolleybuses were the last such vehicles in the "Noo Yawk" area; PSNJ's ASV's were then gone 12 years already..........

"NYO"

["ST. LOUIS CAR COMPANY"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

You might know about this........

What info on the latest "Battery BINOs" being "poichased" by the "Em-Tee-Yay"?

Are these "Bendies" or the usual "shoeboxes"?

Can't believe that they day has, alas, finally come when there is NOT ONE BUS (and I use the term "bus" more in jest than anything else) in "Noo Yawk" that I can say I actually LIKE,

Last ones, of course, were the "Are-Tee-Es"; I STILL mourn for Fishbowls, "Dangerfields", "Kramdens", and "Pattons".........

"NYO"

["NYCTA"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

Sounds like the "new kids on the block" are going to be every bit as "ho-hum" and boooooring as what has been running out there on "Noo Yawk" streets, ever since the iconic RTS was dethroned......

"NYO"

["GMC"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

Perhaps it is just as well that Brooklyn no longer operates trolleybuses; the last modern trolleybuses I like were those on the Cambridge lines up in "Bah-ston", before the "T" fooolishly "pulled the plug on the swift, silent electric coaches, several years ago.

Case in point:

Look at the MONSTROCITIES operating in certain cities these days......giant milk cartons, perhaps mating with an alien species of giant insect, perhaps?

Some REALLY hideous vehicles operating south-of-the-border these days; ditto Europe and Asia.........

'NYO"

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Here's an interesting SEPTA trolleybus page (photos, routes, maps, history, etc.)............

https://www.railfanguides.us/septa/trackless/index.htm

[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

Scroll down the page, and behold some TRULY FRIGHTENING-LOOKING "JUBs" from other areas of the world (Asia, South America, and Europe is home to some of the most BIZARRE vehicles!).....bulked-up, giant, mutated, electrically-charged, inspid, alien insects.....YOU JUST GOTTA WONDER just WHAT goes through the minds of the designers??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus

Perhaps their parents/grandparents spent a lot of time coming off bad acid trips back in the day, after attending a Jimi Hendrix concert!

"QUICK, HENRY! THE FLIT!"

Give me a REAL trolleybuses, built by a long-defunct AMERICAN builder, anyday!

"NYO"

["ST. LOUIS CAR COMPANY"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

Indeed!

And, don't forget the light rail units in Europe and Asia, truly resembling nothing more than giant, slithering, human-digesting alien serpents from some far-off galaxy.

I'd be SCARED as all heck if I were in some foriegn city, and saw one of these slithering, evil-looking, alien "machines" emerging from the fog on a stormy night........

"NYO"

["INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS"