BusTalk A Community Discussing Buses and Bus Operations Worldwide!    BusTalk Main FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups BusTalk Galleries   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Search found 30025 matches BusTalk Forum Index Author Message   Topic: "Giant Insects" vs "Shoe Boxes" NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 121 Views: 285321 Forum: General Bus Forum - All Bus Topics   Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 9:05 am   Subject: "Giant Insects" vs "Shoe Boxes" (SEE PREVIOUS POSTS) As an example......... Back in 1975, we see what was once an everyday scene at the "BERGEN AVENUE's" old garage in lower Jersey City, back when Old Looks were stil ...   Topic: "Giant Insects" vs "Shoe Boxes" NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 121 Views: 285321 Forum: General Bus Forum - All Bus Topics   Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 8:57 am   Subject: "Giant Insects" vs "Shoe Boxes" Further.......... Back in the old days, as I had noted earlier, several of the "local" independent Hudson County-area companies were part of an "extended family", so to speak. ...   Topic: NYC/London congestive pricing (Eyewitness News) NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 1152 Views: 646685 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 8:43 am   Subject: NYC/London congestive pricing (Eyewitness News) W.B.: Here are a few interesting vintage views, taken at the 36th Street yards (earliest 1932)........ https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?130196 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?150322 ...   Topic: NYC/London congestive pricing (Eyewitness News) NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 1152 Views: 646685 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 8:29 am   Subject: NYC/London congestive pricing (Eyewitness News) Dean Street ("Q" fantrip), 1969............ https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?4592 (courtesy: nycsubway.org) ["DEAN STREET"[ *Historical note: On this day in 1999, ...   Topic: Baseball buses/rapid transit (then and now) NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 2723 Views: 1180130 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 8:23 am   Subject: Baseball buses/rapid transit (then and now) Just a brief sports "nooze" update...... "AYFs", for sure are indeed NOT loving the fact that *"El-Ay" is once again in the "Woild" Series, most especially w ...   Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 782 Views: 550921 Forum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 11:30 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta! Steel-wheeled and rubber-tired nostalgia from Philly.......... https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?118443 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?68049 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show ...   Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 782 Views: 550921 Forum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 11:15 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta! Interesring......... I wonder how many realize that the iconic Fishbowl AND the equally-iconic PCC were BOTH being manufactured in the 1950s! Of course, by the time that the first Fishb ...   Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 782 Views: 550921 Forum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 11:04 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta! I guess that was opposed to "Dreamliners" that I think the GM Fishbowls were referred to as when they took over the PCC routes. Cyberider: When I was kid, I gave nicknames to virtually ...   Topic: "Giant Insects" vs "Shoe Boxes" NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 121 Views: 285321 Forum: General Bus Forum - All Bus Topics   Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 7:26 pm   Subject: "Giant Insects" vs "Shoe Boxes" I'm pretty sure Sun Valley is long gone too. They used to run some routes up to NV instead of or maybe in addition to Greyhound. The Phoenix-Mesa line was the only suburban line they had that I'm aw ...   Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 782 Views: 550921 Forum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 7:19 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta! Also: The first Flex New Looks went into service for the MTA (Los Angeles) in 1963; here, they were dubbed "SilverLiners"........... 'NYO" ["28 WHITTIER BLVD." ...   Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 782 Views: 550921 Forum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 7:15 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta! Cyberider: Though New York's NYCTA had Flex New Looks since the mid-1960s, here in New Jersey, there were none whatsoever until the huge influx of NJDOT-purchased buses (nearly 900!) arrived in the ...   Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 782 Views: 550921 Forum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 5:10 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta! Also: When the nearly 900-bus order of NJDOT Flex New Looks began arriving around 1976/1977, it literally spelled the end of the line for virtually all of the suburban Old Looks than operating in N ...   Topic: "Giant Insects" vs "Shoe Boxes" NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 121 Views: 285321 Forum: General Bus Forum - All Bus Topics   Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 5:04 pm   Subject: "Giant Insects" vs "Shoe Boxes" Cyberider: Interesting! In my area (Hudson County) in the 60s, there were numerous "indy" (local) companies...... NORTH HUDSON BOULEVARD SOUTH HUDSON BOULEVARD (these ...   Topic: "Giant Insects" vs "Shoe Boxes" NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 121 Views: 285321 Forum: General Bus Forum - All Bus Topics   Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 11:54 am   Subject: "Giant Insects" vs "Shoe Boxes" None of those "new generation" square window Old Looks in Phoenix either. I believe there were a few of the post war Twins when we moved here in the mid-50's but I never rode one. I do rem ...   Topic: "Green Hornets"/"Ls"/Interurbans NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 248 Views: 95978 Forum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 11:50 am   Subject: "Green Hornets"/"Ls"/Interurbans Further: The "6000s" were also the first postwar CTA "L" cars to be equipped with streetcar style folding doors, occe so commonplace in Chicago....... 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