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Mr. Linsky · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:16 am Post subject: 'GREEN LINE # 717 HAS ARRIVED'

Pretty soon I will have a photo of virtually every Green Line Bus ever purchased - a dream that I thought could never come true!

Pictured below is fleet # 717 - a 1938 Mack Model CT-3G and one of 35 (701 to 735) delivered to the company in May of that year.

Together with 35 600's from 1937 and 30 100's (inherited from Manhattan & Queens in the early forties), the CT's were the backbone of the Green Line fleet until the first GM Diesels came upon the scene in 1946.

# 717 is shown signed as the Q8 (Jerome Avenue) and turning onto Euclid Avenue in Brooklyn readying for a School Bus run circa the late forties.

Most of what was left of the CT's went to Triboro Coach and Jamaica Buses by 1950.

Note that while the street lamp post in the foreground is of more modern postwar aluminum, the street name and one-way signs on the wooden pole are a throw back to the twenties.

Many thanks to Cyberider for his lead and Transportation Photogs Guide for the use of the picture.

Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, NY

Cyberider · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 501 Location: Tempe, AZ

Thanks for pointing out some of the interesting features of this photo, Mr. Linsky. Love the early color photos when you see a subject such as this bus in color instead of the usual black and white. The internet certainly is a wonderful thing for us old bus fans to see and learn about things we thought were lost in antiquity. Hope you get all of the GBL buses in photo eventually. Mr. Green

Mr. Linsky · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 2:34 pm Post subject:

Dave,

Thank you again for the lead - this guy Pete is very nice and says he has loads of old Green Line pictures.

Looking at #717 in a color photo doesn't do much for it because its hues are so drab.

However, due to the fact that I've never seen a color shot of a Green Line CT before, I never knew that the wheels were red!

I remember the buses but there's no was I would have remembered the color of the wheels.

Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, NY