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| Old Looks from Philly or anywhere are always a good subject. Your "friendly-looking" old bus! |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2026 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Cyberider wrote: | | Old Looks from Philly or anywhere are always a good subject. Your "friendly-looking" old bus! |
Cyberider:
Indeed, Old Looks SOUNDED and LOOKED "friendly"; they also had a more "refined" sound than the tough-looking MACKS, WHITES, and ACF-BRILLS, but no less POWERFUL! 
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Cyberider
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| Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2026 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Yep, nothing as sweet-sounding as a GM/Detroit 2-cycle Diesel engine in a bus. |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2026 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Cyberider wrote: | | Yep, nothing as sweet-sounding as a GM/Detroit 2-cycle Diesel engine in a bus. |
Cyberider:
If one encountered, back in the day, a 4104, and closed their eyes, you'd swear you were listening to the sweet, melodic sounds of an Old Look suburban..........aaahhh, sweet symphony......
"NYO"
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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Talk about "UNORTHODOX"(!!) 
Imagine these as an intercity coach? 
Somewhere, long ago, I had read that GREYHOUND, at one time, had shown some (short-lived)interested in these monolithic streamliners.................
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_Futurliner
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Cyberider
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| Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2026 10:09 am Post subject: |
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| The Futureliners remind me of that Diesel passenger engine with the cab on top and very futuristic looking. Didn't know Oral Roberts had one! |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2026 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Cyberider wrote: | | The Futureliners remind me of that Diesel passenger engine with the cab on top and very futuristic looking. Didn't know Oral Roberts had one! |
Cyberider:
Agreed!
Also, note the "cockpit" for the driver; the Pickwick Nite Coahed also had an elevated "cockpit"for the driver.
Years ago, on a now-defunct Greyhound site ,there was a neat artist's rendition of a "Futurliner" as a GREYHOUND bus......VERY impressive!
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Cyberider
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Forgot about the Pickwick Stages bus with the elevated cockpit. Way ahead of it's time!
Now the Scenicruiser is a bus that I can relate to as I've riden on them. This was later in their life when they had the 8V-71 engines installed. Those buses could really "haul." |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629
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| Cyberider wrote: | Forgot about the Pickwick Stages bus with the elevated cockpit. Way ahead of it's time!
Now the Scenicruiser is a bus that I can relate to as I've riden on them. This was later in their life when they had the 8V-71 engines installed. Those buses could really "haul." |
Cyberider:
Sadly, I never got to ride a SCENICRUISER, but I certinly remember them as a kid, at the old GREYHOUNDnstation opposite Penn Station in Manhaatan, and the Lincoln Tunbel.
I also have several SCENICRUISER manuals in my collection, and nearly 100 vintage toy SCENICRUISERS, most well over 60 years old!
Indeed, the iconicSCENICRUISER was "America's Bus"........
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Cyberider
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Didn't know where to put this but it is unorthodox.
The Cab So Deadly Crews Called It The Meat Grinder ? The Camelback Locomotive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJk3Ob9WAA4 |
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