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 30385 matches BusTalk Forum Index Author Message   Topic: Another rapid transit "meltdown" (PATH) NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 64 Views: 19713 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2025 5:13 pm   Subject: Another rapid transit "meltdown" (PATH) Compare these cab views (scruffy-looking "K" cab, post-retirement, and a restored "R-17")*....... https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?157645 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/sh ...   Topic: Another rapid transit "meltdown" (PATH) NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 64 Views: 19713 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2025 5:02 pm   Subject: Another rapid transit "meltdown" (PATH) This interior photo of a "K" from 1976 shows us that, unlike "Noo Yawk's" rolling stock, upholstered seating was still in use, and would be until the cars were retired in 1989..... ...   Topic: Another rapid transit "meltdown" (PATH) NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 64 Views: 19713 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2025 4:55 pm   Subject: Another rapid transit "meltdown" (PATH) W.B.: Agreed. Note, also, the narrow "gun slot" end sign boxes, reminiscent of both "Bah-ston's" and "Shik-aga's" postwar rolling stock..........TOTALLY unlike &quo ...   Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 969 Views: 600175 Forum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2025 3:38 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta! This rare c-1950 photo shows a B&QT PCC on McDonald Avenue, being temporarily held up by a lumbering "SBK" freight (here, the "SBK" shared the rails with the streetcars, making ...   Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 969 Views: 600175 Forum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2025 1:47 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta! An ex-CNS&M interurban riding the rails of the ol' "SBK" in Brooklyn???? Yes, indeed! https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?46033 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/s ...   Topic: Another rapid transit "meltdown" (PATH) NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 64 Views: 19713 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2025 10:59 am   Subject: Another rapid transit "meltdown" (PATH) Hard to believe that it is now 36 years since the venerable "MP-52"/"K" PRR/H&M/PATH cars were retired. Youir's Truly literally grew up with these iconic cars, beginning wit ...   Topic: Rollsigns/batwings/readings/routes, etc. NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 299 Views: 328013 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2025 12:22 am   Subject: Rollsigns/batwings/readings/routes, etc. "A STUDY IN CONTRASTS" (36th St. yards)........... https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?53689 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?69363 (courtesy: nycsubway.org) ["ta"] ...   Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 969 Views: 600175 Forum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2025 12:09 am   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta! Here's several vintage views of "SBK" steeplecabs at the BMT's 26th Street yards (FORMIDABLE machines, indeed!) https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?7332 https://www.nycsubway. ...   Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 969 Views: 600175 Forum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2025 10:01 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta! Given the vast and often mind-boggling variety that was rail transit in Brooklyn, many years ago, it should come as little surprise that hulking STEEPLECABS were once a part of the action, running alo ...   Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 969 Views: 600175 Forum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2025 9:34 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta! Thanks, NYO. Lots of interesting stuff. That was the place to be for a full measure of rail transit. Just needed to be born earlier and have a long life to take it all in. Cyberider: Indeed! ...   Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 969 Views: 600175 Forum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2025 8:10 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta! Is it any wonder why, back in the late 1940s and early 1950s, why the local streetcar buffs branded TARS Garden Avenue yard as "The Streetcar Slaughterhouse"? https://www.nycsubway ...   Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 969 Views: 600175 Forum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2025 6:33 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta! Until 1951, B&QT also maintained at sizeable streetcar yard at Fresh Pond, near the rapid transit yard. The cars seen here are 8000-series double-ended Peter Wtts, the last two-man cars ordered ...   Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 969 Views: 600175 Forum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2025 6:13 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta! (SEE PREVIOUS POSTS/LINKS) The lost convertibles of TARS......... Though several examples of Brooklyn's famed convertible streetcars (aka "the Breeze Cars") were saved, not one of TARS ...   Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 969 Views: 600175 Forum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2025 4:39 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta! Well into the 1950s, the BMT's extensive Fresh Pond yards was host to a large number of elevated gate cars (note, also, CLARK-built "Bluebird", which was retired in the mid-1950s. The MTA ...   Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 969 Views: 600175 Forum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2025 4:19 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta! In this classic c-1915 view, we see a proud, dapper group of trainmen posing with a train of BRT gate cars at the Canarsie yard (Rockaway Parkway) This was before the arrival of the "Standards ...   Page 1 of 2026 Goto page 1, 2, 3 ... 2024, 2025, 2026  Next All times are GMT - 5 Hours Jump to: Select a forum PLEASE READ FIRST!----------------Announcements & InformationMember Introductions and AnnouncementsMember Feedback & Help Featured Forums----------------Hot Topics & Current EventsGeneral Bus Forum - All Bus TopicsGeneral Transportation - All Other ModesHobbyist Trips, Events, Outings, & MeetingsSurface Transit Resources on the Web New York Transit Forums----------------New York City BusesNew York City Bus RostersLong Island & Westchester BusesUpstate New York Surface TransitMTA News, Current Events & HappeningsToday in New York City Transit History Surface Transportation Worldwide----------------Transit Bus ManufacturersSurface Transit - Eastern United StatesSurface Transit - Western United StatesSurface Transit - CanadaSurface Transit - Everywhere ElseOver The Road Carriers Transit Employees & Employment----------------Transit Employee Discussion, Information, & IssuesBus Transportation Planning The Transit Hobbyist, Historian, Enthusiast----------------Photographs, Bus Logs and Route Suggestion IdeasBuses in Pop CultureExchange Place & Collector's CornerBus Preservation, Conversion, & SalesThe Bus Modeler  Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group