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 26 matches BusTalk Forum Index Author Message   Topic: 'DC TRANSIT'S A/C'D 5105'S' bystander Replies: 9 Views: 21156 Forum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 1:59 pm   Subject: DCT and the 102" bus "Big Bus" problems were all but solved by the time The Articoolers (Yes, it was on them, and all air conditioned buses after that-want to see a Fishbowl labeled Articooler?) arrived on the s ...   Topic: 'CAPITAL TRACTION COMPANY' bystander Replies: 6 Views: 15903 Forum: General Transportation - All Other Modes   Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:44 pm   Subject: Transfer tables. Hi, everyone. I'm still around. The reason for the transfer tables in DC was simple. It cost a lot of money to build underground conduit and switches were Special Trackwork virtually hand built to ...   Topic: 'IT'S DEJAVU ALL OVER AGAIN' bystander Replies: 12 Views: 25636 Forum: Hot Topics & Current Events   Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 3:38 pm   Subject: Floating Nukes Mr. Linsky: The Long Island Plan is close to what I had in mind,but, As we learned a few years ago in the San Francisco Earthquake, when you build something on fill and an earthquake comes, the fill ...   Topic: Are any Brockway buses still Running Around? bystander Replies: 9 Views: 20958 Forum: General Bus Forum - All Bus Topics   Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 11:15 pm   Subject: Are any Brockway buses still Running Around? Some things take longer than others, but TWO YEARS??? I remember when I was towing Cadillacs out of Brooklyn back in the Sixties, there was a fleet of Brockway School Buses with Penn-Yan bodies. Th ...   Topic: 'IT'S DEJAVU ALL OVER AGAIN' bystander Replies: 12 Views: 25636 Forum: Hot Topics & Current Events   Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 4:41 pm   Subject: Worth a try.....Maybe? Perhaps the Federal government, through Tax Incentives, or outright Bribery, could cause the following to transpire over the next Ten Years.(They seem to love Ten Year Plans) Every Highway vehicle ...   Topic: Hybrid Safety for Emergency Responders bystander Replies: 2 Views: 9528 Forum: General Bus Forum - All Bus Topics   Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 6:37 pm   Subject: Hybrid Safety for Emergency Responders Good planning, and very important,too. I remember going through training with the fire company when the shock absorbing bumpers first came out. If the fire gets to the absorbing cylinders, they COULD ...   Topic: Another Old Memory bystander Replies: 6 Views: 15880 Forum: General Bus Forum - All Bus Topics   Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:37 pm   Subject: AAARGHGH!! Now I've done it!!! I've set my brain off on another Science Fiction Adventure Epic!! 1: If Me, Steve, Hiway Haulier, and Mr. Linsky should ever meet, it won't be at Cecil County Dragway to race buses. It'll probably ...   Topic: Another Old Memory bystander Replies: 6 Views: 15880 Forum: General Bus Forum - All Bus Topics   Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:58 pm   Subject: Two speed rears? Steve: I got to thinking about what you said. i may ramble a bit here because its been awhile since I played with gearing. Never-the-less, here we go. We are looking at The Cummins engine with e ...   Topic: MUNI Pushbutton bystander Replies: 1 Views: 8441 Forum: General Bus Forum - All Bus Topics   Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:28 pm   Subject: MUNI Pushbutton About 1963 I visited San Francisco and one of the things I did was ride some Trackless Trolleys. I noticed that when we were getting under way, the driver would push a little silver button and the bus ...   Topic: Another Old Memory bystander Replies: 6 Views: 15880 Forum: General Bus Forum - All Bus Topics   Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:17 pm   Subject: Another Old Memory Back around '64, I was in Merced California and I had a freind named Davey Something....I wish I could remember his last name. Davey had a Crown School Coach with the Underfloor Cummins in it and the ...   Topic: 'THE TAXI STAND' bystander Replies: 20 Views: 56344 Forum: General Transportation - All Other Modes   Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 8:59 pm   Subject: 'THE TAXI STAND' Oldee Taximeter in Long Island City (I think) has a private museum with lots of pictures and many great old taximeters.Call ahead to make sure it's a convenient time. Sometimes they're all busy hackin ...   Topic: Corgi's Current Status bystander Replies: 8 Views: 28756 Forum: Exchange Place & Collector's Corner   Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 8:57 am   Subject: Corgi's Current Status Well, yes. Your post -precipitated mine. I know how much time, effort, and money goes into the creation of one of these models. That being said, I don't understand why they couldn't have gone the extr ...   Topic: Corgi's Current Status bystander Replies: 8 Views: 28756 Forum: Exchange Place & Collector's Corner   Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:11 pm   Subject: Corgi's Current Status A few years ago, they released an Old Look Red Arrow 4509 Suburban #110. I told them the 110 was a Transit and they told me I was wrong. Yeah, right. I had owned the 110.And I offered them the 111 as ...   Topic: Another Tale Of Depravity From The Old Memory Bank, bystander Replies: 2 Views: 9738 Forum: General Bus Forum - All Bus Topics   Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:42 pm   Subject: Another Tale Of Depravity From The Old Memory Bank, Yeah,but we weren't trying to jump Two Hundred and some feet, more like 20 feet. And we were using an old look, not a Fishbowl.I think you could drop an Old Look out of an airplane and it would like ...   Topic: The Great Race bystander Replies: 15 Views: 32353 Forum: General Bus Forum - All Bus Topics   Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:38 pm   Subject: The Great Race Mr Linsky 10QVM for the ad. I have enjoyed all those you have posted, Vern-Check this out. 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