BusTalk

[X-Astorian]

I know some of you may have seen this on another board but for those that didn't I post it here as well. The oldest Steinway Transit Express schedules I have are dated 1/2/76 and included separate lists of stops. The handouts at the time were extremely poor quality. Although you can't tell on this post, the schedule portion was 6" x 6" while the stops list was 8.5" x 7.5." A few years later Steinway (and Queens Transit) much improved on what they provided and I'll post those soon.

[X-Astorian]

Less than eight years after printing the poor quality information that we previously saw, in November 1983 Steinway Transit got professional and provided a four-color map showing stops (really a diagram - geography is only suggested), timetables and fare information in one handy folder.

[traildriver]

Interesting....surprised that Steinway rather than Queens Transit ran those routes, when you consider that Queens Transit territory was closer to that area in general...

I was living away from New York in that era, so my knowledge is poor in that regard....

[X-Astorian]

[traildriver]

Oh...they divvyed up the runs between the two...interesting. Thanks for posting. When did they assign the 'QM-' route numbers to those routes?

[X-Astorian]

I missed this one with the last post.

[X-Astorian]

From 1983 we’ll roll past the 1986 merger of Queens/Steinway Transit, the 1988 sale to Linden Bus which quickly became Queens Surface Corp., which soon got permission to drop the QM-3 and Wall Street runs that Caravan Bus picked up and later returned in early 1990.

The c. 1990 map below is a combination of the earlier Steinway and Queens Transit ones and still omits route numbers while the separate September 1990 timetable includes them.