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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 9:51 pm    Post subject: "BUSES IN THE BACKGROUND" Reply with quote

The title of this thread is self-explanatory.....hope you enjoy these vintage views......

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 9:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Photos of "encounters" between GREYHOUND buses and streetcars are not all that common.....

http://www.davesrailpix.com/odds/ab/htm/lmr02.htm
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 9:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Timeless vignette of a new ACF-BRILL trolley bus and an elderly streetcar......

http://www.davesrailpix.com/bcer/htm/bc169.htm
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"BACKGROUND BRILL"

http://www.davesrailpix.com/odds/ab/htm/et05.htm
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The OLD LOOK and the PCC.....both historic icons on American transit.....

http://www.davesrailpix.com/larys/htm/lary115.htm
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

LA, 1947......

http://www.davesrailpix.com/larys/htm/lajt189.htm
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Greetings from Beverly Hills......

http://www.davesrailpix.com/pe/htm/pe495.htm
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interesting photo at too pf page, symbolizing the end of an era in Detroit.....

http://www.detroittransithistory.info/PCC/DetroitPCC-5.html


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Back in the old days, "Rice-A-Roni" was NOT the ONLY "San Francisco Treat".......

http://world.nycsubway.org/perl/show?56555

http://world.nycsubway.org/perl/show?56546


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sleek FLXIBLE CLIPPERS overshadowed by the massive "RED CARS" of the PE at the Santa Ana station.......

http://davesrailpix.com/pe/htm/pe520.htm
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A colorful late 1940's scene on the PE at San Bernardino, late 1940's.

Here we see a PE WHITE and a FORD in "Fruit Salad" colors, overshadowed by a hulking PE "box motor".......

http://www.davesrailpix.com/pe/htm/pe096.htm


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"RED CAR'S RED BUSES".......

http://www.davesrailpix.com/pe/htm/pe546.htm

http://www.davesrailpix.com/pe/htm/pe335.htm
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"THE OLD MEETS THE NEW".......

http://www.davesrailpix.com/pe/htm/pe336.htm
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some pictures are worth a thousand words.....this truly timeless scene is indeed one of them.....

http://www.davesrailpix.com/pe/htm/pe276.htm
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Washington, DC, 1962.....the old order is about to pass into history.....

http://www.davesrailpix.com/dct/htm/dct271.htm
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