BusTalk

Note on Flxible Twin 6000
the miserably small destination UNIVERSITY AVENUE,
and the fare at 13 cents.
No year given.
Joe

Please note that this is the rear of a northbound car, with Columbia University at the right. One odd thing about this operation on an important section of Broadway was that the passengers boarded and ...

I beg to differ about the last run for the composites. Sunday, June 25, 1950, I was about to graduate from the parish school of St. John on Kingsbridge Avenue. The ceremony was late in the day, maybe ...

Heading south, the shape of Manhattan Island cuts off 11th Avenue at 23rd Street. In researching the census addresses of my "Village" ancestors, I learned that some higher house numbers of e ...

I was age ten during most of the bustitution of Manhattan and The Bronx. Sure, the curtain rollers on postwar Surface buses were illuminated by small incandescent bulbs, but the route print M100 etc w ...

In childhood, I once remarked to Dad about the clarity of those TARS route letters. He said they needed illumination. He would leave night class at CCNY and find T cars and K cars northbound on Amster ...

Boston's Green Line reached Union Square this morning. It appears that this terminal lacks the across-the-platform transfers that the Boston systems designed in the last century. Which bus routes migh ...

The pantographs look gigantic, and on Russian trolleybuses the poles look extra long. I wonder whether the wires are higher than in the US.

Thanks for posting this thread.
Ukraine is not part of Russia, but I realize that topics on this board tend to drift. On Sub Chat, I received no reply to an inquiry about the controller on Tatra T4s ...

Also, I well recall PS lines (heading into NYC, such as the #165 and the #166) allowed "local" passsengers to board; ditto, ORANGE & BLACK.

An exception was ORANGE & BLACK's rush- ...

Back to the original story of the 1926 Eucharistic Congress closing day with 800,000 in attendance. I note that the bishops' committee for the Indianapolis celebration in July of 2024 presumes that at ...

I am fairly certain that the church is a Catholic church with a congregation of Croatian Heritage. The name is Saints Cyril and Methodius [humans, apostles to the Slavs] and St. Raphael [archangel], a ...

The other day, a friend left Great Neck on a one-day charter trip to Atlantic City. The driver used I-495 west to the Grand Central Parkway, past LaGuardia Airport, over the "RFK" Triborough ...

In London, can a rider judge Underground vs. Tube by the shape of the doors? I see many doors that are bent inwards.

Can that sort of replacing the body be done with U.S. transit buses or with school buses?