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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 9:47 am Post subject: |
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At last......SOME respect FINALLY shown to the downtrodden......and it's called "preservation".......
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3109
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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This vintage scene I dedicate to our late friend and highly-valued mentor, "Mr. Green Bus" himself, Mr. Linsky.........
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?499
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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Roosevelt Field, 1981.
The roll signs on these MSBA buses could EASILY be read from a block away......
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3562
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 9:51 am Post subject: |
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When this picture was snapped, eons ago, I doubt any of us was thinking that, one day, buses like these would be considered "historic" and "classic".
I know Your's Truly sure as heck didn't.....
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?212
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2020 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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Here's a few nostalgic MaBSTOA shots......
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1258 *
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1259
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1260
(courtesy: bus.nycsubway.org)
*On the right is the IRT's handsome old 72nd St. station house, and, just glimpsed in the background, a "pinch-hitting" WAMATA bus.
IMHO, I believe that some bus enthusiasts think that, after the Fishbowls and Flexies, that there were no more "true" MaBSTOA buses after that.
Though the now-gone RTS has since become a classic in its own right (and deservedly so), it seems as though that the long-gone, ill-fated GRUMMAN is still a bus that has become largely ignored by all but the most dedicated, astute, and die-hard "Noo Yawk" bus enthusiasts/historians.
I, for one, sure as heck wouldn't mind going back some 40-odd years and go happily snapping away with my trusty KODAK Instamatic!
I will admit, at the time, I was not all that enamored with them at first, but, as time passed, grew to like them a lot (ditto for the FLEX METRO)
One GOOD thing about the GRUMMANS departing the fleet when they did, however.....they were spared being painted in that godawful "Vanilla Dip" scheme....(!!)
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2020 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Back in '82*, I don't think any of us thought of such a scene as one day being regarded as "nostalgic"...I know I sure didn't........
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2450
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*Note #727's sign reading "CASTLE HLL" (missing "I")......... |
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W.B. Fishbowl
Age: 57 Joined: 02 Oct 2014 Posts: 2465 Location: New York, New York, USA
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Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2020 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | Back in '82*, I don't think any of us thought of such a scene as one day being regarded as "nostalgic"...I know I sure didn't........
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2450
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*Note #727's sign reading "CASTLE HLL" (missing "I")......... |
The 'I' had to be taken out because the Gulton Luminator display, being as it had 15 5x7 dot matrix characters, had to keep it abbreviated. (And among electronic signs, I still prefer theirs to TransDot's.) |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2020 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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W.B.:
Ahhh, so that explains the missing "I"........I am much obliged, Sherlock!
You and I are on the same wavelength; I, myself, have always preferred the "Gulton Luminators" over the others.......
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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This is, without a doubt, my all-time favorite GRUMMAN* photo.....sure wish more of the "Em-Tee-Yay"/MaBSTOA fleet had been suitably equipped.......(!!)
http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1036
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*curious as to why this bus was the only GRUMMAN in the city equipped with "batwings"....... |
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