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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2022 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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"DA BRONX"* (Tremont & Boston, 1971)......
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153945
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*Note how "incomplete" MaBSTOA "Dangerfield" #4676 appears, without the distinctive script above the windows.
Note, too, the new "MTA" medallion.
Old Looks were then still recent memories......
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2483 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2022 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | "DA BRONX"* (Tremont & Boston, 1971)......
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153945
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
*Note how "incomplete" MaBSTOA "Dangerfield" #4676 appears, without the distinctive script above the windows.
Note, too, the new "MTA" medallion. |
The latter (the MTA medallion) meant that the former (the distinctive scripts of both MaBSTOA and TA rolling stock) were to be consigned to the "distant memory" file. Besides, that light atop the standee windows in the center . . . |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2022 12:20 am Post subject: |
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Grand Concourse & Fordham Rd, 1972.
Still "wearin o' the green", first-generation Fishbowl MaBSTOA #3120 sports neither the old "OA" medallion, nor a new "M" insignia.........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153808
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2483 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2022 12:47 am Post subject: |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | Grand Concourse & Fordham Rd, 1972.
Still "wearin o' the green", first-generation Fishbowl MaBSTOA #3120 sports neither the old "OA" medallion, nor a new "M" insignia.........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153808
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Of course it didn't carry the OA medallion, as it was a non-batwing. Only batwings from 6701-6900 and 8301-8780 carried them. This did, however, have the script above the standee windows. . . . |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2022 1:39 am Post subject: |
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W.B.:
I STILL like picturing Old Looks sporting "OA" emblems in my mind......
IMHO, once MABSTOA buses were relieved of their stylized "OA" medallions and stylish script above the windows, the short-lived "classic" era for MaBSTOA was indeed over, gone far too early......
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2022 2:15 am Post subject: |
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Just thinking......
Given that "Da Bronx" was rapidly sinking into chaos by the late 1960's and early 1970's, had the closing of the 3rd Avenue El not happened, would MaBSTOA have taken delivery of the new Fishbowls?
I could see the oldest and most battered buses serving the area in those days, had they not been retired.
Speaking of buses replacing elevated trains, recall when "Tee-Yay" buses replaced the Myrtle Avenue El (with its ancient wooden rolling stock) in 1969.
I wonder what (at least initially) the headways were?
One single bus certainly could carry the amount of passengers that had been previously carried by an elevated train consisting of several cars.......
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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Myrtle Avenue..........
I know that when the Bronx 3rd Avenue El closed in 1973, MaBSTOA took delivery of new Fishbowls (T6H-5309A's)
When the Myrtle Avenue El closed in late 1969, were any new buses purchased for El replacement, or was the existing Myrtle Avenue bus route(s) simply "beefed up" to compensate for the loss of El service?
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W.B. Fishbowl
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | Myrtle Avenue..........
I know that when the Bronx 3rd Avenue El closed in 1973, MaBSTOA took delivery of new Fishbowls (T6H-5309A's)
When the Myrtle Avenue El closed in late 1969, were any new buses purchased for El replacement, or was the existing Myrtle Avenue bus route(s) simply "beefed up" to compensate for the loss of El service?
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Well, the point when the Myrtle Avenue el closed was when the "Em-Tee-Yay" was working out the details for the new set of 'Dangerfields' to be built by Flxible - 203 A/C units for the "Tee-Yay," 128 for MaBSTOA. I would hazard a guess that already existing bus service along the avenue saw some increase in the immediate wake of the el shutdown. How many of those Dangerfields were assigned to Myrtle routes, I wonder? |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
Thanks for this info.
For the longest time, it was my thinking that the "Em-Tee-Yay" simply "beefed up" bus service along Myrtle Avenue, after the El shut down.
It would be interesting to see how many "Dangerfields" ran along Myrtle......
"NYO"
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