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  Topic: Imagine if FACCo had a facility like this!
MaBSTOA 15

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2026 1:22 pm   Subject: Imagine if FACCo had a facility like this!
Also the bus used in the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre in my opinion and am ninety nine point nine percent sure it was neither an ex-CMC or ex-FACCO double deck bus.

Why you ask? Because neither c ...
  Topic: Imagine if FACCo had a facility like this!
MaBSTOA 15

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2026 8:25 am   Subject: Imagine if FACCo had a facility like this!
The CTA not only had ex-CMC and CSL Mack post war models but in December 1956 thru April 1957 they acquired 100 Mack model C-49PGT. They were serial numbers 1727-1826. Propane powered with General Tir ...
  Topic: Imagine if FACCo had a facility like this!
MaBSTOA 15

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2026 6:45 pm   Subject: Imagine if FACCo had a facility like this!
I discussed the Philadelphia ex-FACCO Queen Mary in the following post

http://forum.bustalk.info/viewtopic.php?t=5830&sid=b5aaf1dffb92f1dfee1c3c98663ce384
  Topic: Imagine if FACCo had a facility like this!
MaBSTOA 15

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2026 10:18 am   Subject: Imagine if FACCo had a facility like this!
In 1938 all three private companies purchased a single White Model 788.

Fifth Avenue Coach number 1086 serial 210799
New York City Omnibus number 499 serial number 210800
Surface Transportation ...
  Topic: Imagine if FACCo had a facility like this!
MaBSTOA 15

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2026 6:03 pm   Subject: Imagine if FACCo had a facility like this!
A Fifth Avenue Coach model TD-4506 as delivered in the ODT gray and white color scheme
  Topic: Club Transport, Surface Transit, TARS, etc.......
MaBSTOA 15

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2026 6:01 pm   Subject: Club Transport, Surface Transit, TARS, etc.......
This is the Mount Vernon depot of Westchester Street Transportation. Formerly the Surface Transportation garage that you mentioned earlier.

Here is ex-Fifth Avenue Coach number 2500 transferred to ...
  Topic: B & O Bus Service
MaBSTOA 15

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2026 2:55 pm   Subject: B & O Bus Service
https://www.trains.com/ctr/railroads/passenger-service/railroad-bus-service-to-new-york-city/

Note the destination sign on one bus says to Brooklyn and the oher says to Rockefeller Center.

Enjoy ...
  Topic: The Blue Star Route
MaBSTOA 15

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2025 4:54 pm   Subject: The Blue Star Route
Emblem found on the front of all Somerset Bus Line buses
  Topic: "To The Piers" (W. 42nd St.)/Uptown nostalgia
MaBSTOA 15

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2025 4:52 pm   Subject: "To The Piers" (W. 42nd St.)/Uptown nostalgia
MaBSTOA and the Day Line
  Topic: Boulevard Bus Route 5
MaBSTOA 15

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2025 3:54 pm   Subject: Boulevard Bus Route 5
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153651

According to the Ohio Museum of Transportation production list this is a GM T6H-5306A serial number 0135 delivered in May 1969 and listed as Norma H. Lipp ...
  Topic: Imagine if FACCo had a facility like this!
MaBSTOA 15

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2025 3:35 pm   Subject: Imagine if FACCo had a facility like this!
The CTA also acquired Yellow Coach and GM old look models from Chicago Surface Lines.

Said models were TG-3205, TD-3605, TG-4007, TD-4506 and TDH-4507.

What fascinates me is the difference in t ...
  Topic: The BoT and the PABT
MaBSTOA 15

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2025 3:20 pm   Subject: The BoT and the PABT
At the time this photo was taken PSNJ did not have 40 foot buses. They would not buy king size buses till a year later in 1952 with the TDM-5107 suburban model.
  Topic: Boulevard Bus Route 5
MaBSTOA 15

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2025 2:04 pm   Subject: Boulevard Bus Route 5
A timetable from North Avenue Transportation Company bus rote 5
  Topic: The BoT and the PABT
MaBSTOA 15

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2025 1:56 pm   Subject: The BoT and the PABT
Did any BoT route enter the PABT?

The answer is NO and YES

Here is a brand new BoT TDH-5101 testing its size in the ramps and platforms of the PABT
  Topic: What does the future hold for the PABT?
MaBSTOA 15

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2025 7:52 pm   Subject: What does the future hold for the PABT?
This is a TDM-4509. These were GMs first attempt at suburban models. 1949-1950.

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154483
 
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