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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Cyberider wrote: | | I guess that was opposed to "Dreamliners" that I think the GM Fishbowls were referred to as when they took over the PCC routes. |
Cyberider:
When I was kid, I gave nicknames to virtually every bus I knew; Fishbowls were "Jetson Buses" and "World's Fair Buses" 
BTW:
I STILL have the tin friction GREYHOUND Fishbowl Mom bought me at the '64 Fair!  (I also have a scale model by CORGI, of one of GREYHOUND's '64 Fair Fishbowls!)
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2025 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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Interesring.........
I wonder how many realize that the iconic Fishbowl AND the equally-iconic PCC were BOTH being manufactured in the 1950s! 
Of course, by the time that the first Fishbowls began arriving in 1959, the last PCCs built were already several years old...............
"NYO"
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Cyberider
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| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Some good looking service buses! |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Cyberider wrote: | | Some good looking service buses! |
Cyberider:
Back in the 1960s, I remember retired square-window Old Looks (NHBL) being used as salt-spreaders during winter months; PS also rostered some converted Old Looks for salt-spreading duties, back then.........
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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This veteran "SNOW FIGHTER" Old Look, its revenue days now in the past, was over 20 years old when this wintry photo was taken......
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?155230
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
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Cyberider
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| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Just imagine one of the new low floor busses trying to do this. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Cyberider wrote: | | Just imagine one of the new low floor busses trying to do this. |
Cyberider:
Yeah, right! 
Too many times nowadays, the MTA and NJT has had to sideline buses (particularly articulateds) during snowstorms/icy roads (even with chains) because of too many issues with "whiplash" and "sideswiping".
When I was still commuting into New York. after one particularly harrowing commute home when the wintry streets were pretty slick, I vowed NEVER to sit in the REAR section of an articulated, when the weather was even the least bit damp (the now-retired VOLVOs were the WORST, in virtually ALL respects)...........
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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Many, many decades ago, PSNJ rostered a large number of formidable sweepers and plows; this magnificently restored plow had served in the City Subway until 2001' I was given a personal tour aboard this elderly, snow-fighting monster back in 1972 by a veteran PS trolleyman, as it slumbered peacefully off-season, stored in the old inbound Cedar Street Subway connector (I even got to clang the bell!)
What a great old memory, a rare experience NEVER to be duplicated today!
(this car, until 1953, was based at ROSEVILLE, Newark's largest car house/yard)
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?101239
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?101241
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2025 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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The Baltimore Streetcar Museum (BSM) operates this ancient ex-PTC (Philadelphia) sweeper; PSNJ once rostered a large number of such cars, the very last serving the City Subway (Newark) from 1953 until 2001.
That particular car originally based at Newark's "ROSEVILLE" car house.........
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?161911
(courtesy: nycsubway.org)
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