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  Topic: 'VINTAGE NEW YORK CITY'
andy47

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2015 9:44 pm   Subject: The Bingham Macks
The Bingham Macks, during their service lives, were assigned to Board of Transportation (and after 1953, NYC Transit Authority) routes in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island. Despite the locale of ...
  Topic: Vintage Nassau County
andy47

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PostForum: Long Island & Westchester Buses   Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 8:57 am   Subject: Vintage Nassau County
I definitely remember when Nassau County purchased a fleet of 1970 Flxibles for lease to its various private operators. However, to the best of my knowledge neither the Semke nor Hempstead firms had ...
  Topic: 'The Buses of Schenck Transportation'
andy47

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PostForum: Long Island & Westchester Buses   Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:08 pm   Subject: Buses of Schenck Transportation
Schenck was the predominant bus transit operator on the North Shore of Nassau County in the fifties and sixties. It also had many school bus contracts including my own district. Remember its bues we ...
  Topic: 'VINTAGE NEW YORK CITY'
andy47

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 11:34 am   Subject: 'VINTAGE NEW YORK CITY'
The 7000 series TDH5106 GMCs should be remembered because that order introduced two features that became standard throughout both NYC and much of the urban bus industry - fiberglass seating and push-t ...
  Topic: 'VINTAGE NEW YORK CITY'
andy47

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 11:49 pm   Subject: Carnegie Hall Photo
Great shot, but it's actually looking south (downtown) along Seventh Avenue. 57th Street is crossing at the middle of the photo; east is to the right.

The single deck 728 is operating eastward on ...
  Topic: Fifth Avenue Traffic
andy47

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 5:42 pm   Subject: Picture of Fifth Avenue Traffic
This photo appeared in the July 1939 edition of Fortune Magazine, which was completely devoted to New York City on the occasion of the World's Fair that year. The FACO bus to the left directly above ...
  Topic: Vintage Nassau County
andy47

Replies: 254
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PostForum: Long Island & Westchester Buses   Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 6:37 pm   Subject: Nassau County operators
The photos of the Schenck and Hempstead buses sure brought back memories. Besides Hempstead Bus, many other Nassau County operators had similar small Ford buses - Schenck, Nassau Bus Line, and Unive ...
  Topic: 'VINTAGE NEW YORK CITY'
andy47

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 10:47 pm   Subject: PCC Car in Flushing
The PCC car in the photo is actually operating on tracks of the Corona Ave. Line, today's bus route Q58 Flushing-Ridgewood . While PCCs were not normally assigned, this was a special route that actu ...
  Topic: Double deckers on 7th Avenue
andy47

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 7:20 pm   Subject: Double deckers on 7th Avenue
FACC single deck Yellow Coaches (Models 728 and 740) also ran on the #6 72nd St. Crosstown and #20 57th Street Crosstown. Neither one used double deckers. The #6, despite its route name, did not go ...
  Topic: A few FACC questions.....
andy47

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 11:38 am   Subject: FACC Musings
The Queen Marys were originally operated withn two men. The conductor had a small seat atop the right front wheel well, where he collected fares as passengers boarded.

In December 1946 FACC retire ...
  Topic: Double deckers on 7th Avenue
andy47

Replies: 7
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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:09 am   Subject: Buses at Penn Station
Correct about the FACO #4 - its south terminal was at Penn, on the east side of 7th Ave. between 31st and 32nd Sts. The #4 buses did not begin using 34th St. on their southbound trips till the mid 19 ...
  Topic: Vintage Nassau County
andy47

Replies: 254
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PostForum: Long Island & Westchester Buses   Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2013 7:05 pm   Subject: GM TDH3714s
Good shot of the Checker Bus Corp. 3714. Schenck Transportation Company, the dominant operator where I lived in Nassau County, also had many of these in its fleet. As ridership grew on its subway ...
  Topic: 'VINTAGE NEW YORK CITY'
andy47

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2013 6:55 pm   Subject: 'VINTAGE NEW YORK CITY'
Great shots. Thanks for sharing.

The photo of Surface Transportation #1310 is from a newsreel made in 1947 about its wayward driver, William Cimillo, who decided that New York traffic was too s ...
  Topic: West Farms Square, on a long ago day......
andy47

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 2:12 pm   Subject: West Farms Square, on a long ago day......
The first photo has to be the summer of 1948, because the T/Tremont Ave. car is still running (it quit on Aug. 22, 1948, part of the the last TARS streetcar lines that were motorized). The GM 4507 ...
  Topic: 'VINTAGE NEW YORK CITY'
andy47

Replies: 2261
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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 4:32 pm   Subject: 'VINTAGE NEW YORK CITY'
Mr. L:

You're right that coming from the Mack factory in Allentown PA the buses would cross the Hudson via the Holland (or Lincoln) Tunnel and then continue to Brooklyn on one of the East River bri ...
 
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