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JUSXTREME96 · Joined: 20 Jun 2011 Posts: 37

When were the 1979 GMD T8H-5307A's retired and What were those buses replaced by? The oldest buses I've seen and rode from Green Lines were the 1979 GMC RTS's.

JUSXTREME96 · Joined: 20 Jun 2011 Posts: 37

I read somewhere on the internet that 630-1 ex Triboro RTS 03 630 was at the Green Lines garage around 1999-2000. What was the condition of that bus and when was it retired from service?

Waynejay · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 12:44 am Post subject:

JUSXTREME96 · Joined: 20 Jun 2011 Posts: 37

JUSXTREME96 · Joined: 20 Jun 2011 Posts: 37

Catfish 44 · Age: 48 Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 68 Location: Rockaway

I'd say they at least left Green Line in 1993 or '94. When I graduated high school in June of '94 they weren't around anymore. Nor were any other fishbowls except some garbage buses from 1976 which I believe were 9xx-1 numbers.

Catfish 44 · Age: 48 Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 68 Location: Rockaway

I would say they were replaced by the RTSs from 1993. What has happened to 1012?

GBL Rebel · Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 11:27 am Post subject: Re: GBL Roster

Catfish 44 · Age: 48 Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 68 Location: Rockaway

The last time I was nearby I drove past there it I didn't see it where it had been for the last while.

JUSXTREME96 · Joined: 20 Jun 2011 Posts: 37

Then what did the 1997 Orions 5501-5544 replace?

Catfish 44 · Age: 48 Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 68 Location: Rockaway

I'm not sure because I wan't paying much attention in '97 but it might have been those 1979 RTS buses that were borrowed. They may not have replaced anything per se rather just fill gaps. But certainly by 1997 the new looks were gone.

GBL Rebel · Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 10:19 am Post subject:

Catfish 44 · Age: 48 Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 68 Location: Rockaway

That all sounds plausible but I'm pretty certain that the new looks were all gone in 1994. In fact at that time I thought it was amazing that the TA had 5227 running but Green Line didn't have anymore of them left. I have no proof other than observations from back then. And being out here in Rockaway, we always had the scraps of whatever they owned it seemed. I cannot tell when those 03 RTSs left because I didn't care about them at all.

GBL Rebel · Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 11:45 am Post subject:

I forgot the TMC's were 1994 so I think you are right, fishbowls gone way before Orion V's.

Catfish 44 · Age: 48 Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 68 Location: Rockaway

The last fishbowls out here that I remember were borrowed from I don't know where, maybe Jamaica? I think they had 9xx numbers and were from 1976. I didn't like them one bit. They were awful. Up to 1992 maybe early '93 there were original GBL fishbowls 116 and 118 from 1968. 311 from 1976 and the 1979 355-64 bunch. Plus various borrowed buses from TCC, and Jam.