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This interesting 1942 photo has a PCC gliding along Brooklyn Bridge trackage with a BMT El train (note the convertible car) rumbling alongside.

In 1944, when the El trains stopped running across th ...

CTA 7034 is given a 1940 date. Can't be date of photo, since CTA was organized in 1947. Note the door configuration, 3 +2. Much faster loading than the transit buses GM or Flxible built for years and ...

Thanks for the explanation of major PCC repairs at the DeKalb Carhouse. i was unaware of it.
The research that went into creating the 1936 PCC was extensive and expensive, yet this photo shows one of ...

On the "QM's" what type of fare boxes were employed....the time honored Johnsons, or other types?

In my memory, the conductor roamed both decks, holding a small one-hand register to the p ...

....if the "Dangerfields" received little respect during their many years of faithful service to the "Tee Yay" and MaBSTOA, rest assured that the postwar TWINS ("The Oddballs& ...

It amazes me that a discussion on this week's Megabus flip has not come up on a transit board. Two of the 22 passengers died. The narratives do not explain what the Van Hool was doing on the ramp to t ...

Note on Flxible Twin 6000
the miserably small destination UNIVERSITY AVENUE,
and the fare at 13 cents.
No year given.
Joe

Please note that this is the rear of a northbound car, with Columbia University at the right. One odd thing about this operation on an important section of Broadway was that the passengers boarded and ...

I beg to differ about the last run for the composites. Sunday, June 25, 1950, I was about to graduate from the parish school of St. John on Kingsbridge Avenue. The ceremony was late in the day, maybe ...

Heading south, the shape of Manhattan Island cuts off 11th Avenue at 23rd Street. In researching the census addresses of my "Village" ancestors, I learned that some higher house numbers of e ...

I was age ten during most of the bustitution of Manhattan and The Bronx. Sure, the curtain rollers on postwar Surface buses were illuminated by small incandescent bulbs, but the route print M100 etc w ...

In childhood, I once remarked to Dad about the clarity of those TARS route letters. He said they needed illumination. He would leave night class at CCNY and find T cars and K cars northbound on Amster ...

Boston's Green Line reached Union Square this morning. It appears that this terminal lacks the across-the-platform transfers that the Boston systems designed in the last century. Which bus routes migh ...

The pantographs look gigantic, and on Russian trolleybuses the poles look extra long. I wonder whether the wires are higher than in the US.

Thanks for posting this thread.
Ukraine is not part of Russia, but I realize that topics on this board tend to drift. On Sub Chat, I received no reply to an inquiry about the controller on Tatra T4s ...