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[FifthAvenueCoachLines]

EACC 118 on Park Avenue and 98th Street. 1940's.

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

EXCELLENT PHOTO!!!!!

A REAL bus!!!!!!

Back in the early 1960s, in my area of "metro" New Jersey, some of the old "indy" companies were still running antiques like this......OLD and NOISY.....the way a REAL bus SHOULD be!

Thanks for sharing!

"NYO"

["118"]

[Cyberider]

Great photo! Thanks for sharing.

[W.B. Fishbowl]

This entity was founded to administer the bustituted routes of the old Eighth and Ninth Avenues Railroad - the #10 Eighth Avenue-Central Park West and #11 Ninth and Amsterdam Avenues lines - beginning in late 1935. It was put all over new rolling stock to be assigned to the routes in question as late as 1949 (which, by then, would have meant the "Kramden" model TDH-4509), and in late 1951 was subsumed into that of which EACCo was a subsidiary, the New York City Omnibus Corporation (NYCO). But as seen in that pic, some other routes in the depots/garages to which EACCo routes were assigned - namely, that Yellow 718 bus #118 on NYCO's #20 116th Street Crosstown - would turn up on other routes either under NYCO's or fellow subsidiary Madison Avenue Coach Company, Inc.'s (MACCo) purview.

Pretty weather-beaten for a by-then over 10-year-old bus, this shows how NYCO's (and its subsidiaries') maintenance practices seemed somewhere in-between the "spit-and-polish" FACCo and the "falling apart at the seams" stock of STS (especially once they went bankrupt in 1949).