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'KANSAS CITY (M0) ELEPHANT POWER'

 
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Mr. Linsky
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 3:56 pm    Post subject: 'KANSAS CITY (M0) ELEPHANT POWER' Reply with quote

From our cute photo department;

No!, it's not a bus pulling three elephants - it's three elephants pushing a bus that appears to be stuck in the snow in spite of its set of chains! (didn't most bus companies have a few pachyderms hanging around for just such occasions?).

The time is the 1940's and the place is Kansas City, Missouri where we see fleet # 1568 - a 1942 36 passenger Yellow Coach Model TG 3605 and one of 70 likenesses numbered 1518 to 1587 operating for the then Kansas City Public Service Company.

Of note is #1568's 'war time' all steel body in place of aluminum as evidenced by the double set of side swipe moldings between the wheel wells.

Maybe Yellow should have called this model a TGE 3605 (the 'E' standing for elephant in this case!).

Photo courtesy of the Motor Bus Society.

Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, New York

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andy47




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PostPosted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 9:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This route was no doubt a major trunk line! Sorry, couldn't resist.
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