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W.B.

Thanks.

At least in my area, back in the day, a route number always preceded a destination on a roller curtain*; the only exception being obvious ones, where the sign read:

"CHARTER ...

Came across this most unusual "Slant 40" photo earlier........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?23923

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

Several things make this photo interesting...... : ...

W.B.:

GOOD LUCK! Wink

A photo in "NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT BUSES" (Martin) caught my eye earlier this evening; the photo on page #76 shows "Tee-Yay" #2033 (a TDH-5301), displ ...

Here's an interesting page on the "MA-51" class (Paris Metro) rolling stock of the 1950s (great photos!) Wink

These handsome cars were also the first articulated trains to run in the M ...

The prewar "SPRAGUE-THOMSON" cars were perhaps the most famous of all Paris Metro cars, seen in countless classic films.........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprague-Thomson

These ste ...

The extensive Paris Metro has always been a diverse and most interesting system; it opened in 1900.........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Metro

The Paris Metro was also the first in the wo ...

Exterior bus advertising (London/FACCo)..........

Beginning in the omnibus days, London's double-deckers were festooned with upper deck ads (ads were NOT displayed on the lower decks, with the exce ...

The "R-11/R-34"............

We know that this small group of BUDD-built cars were supposed to be the prototype for a fleet of such cars for the new SAS, which, of course, was never built ...

"Missing" nycsubway.org vintage bus photos (continued):

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Early "Jetson"-era photos (there's perhaps two or three, if that, at nycsubway.org, found with the subway photos)
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Recall how the last of the prewar "Arnines" ended their days on the "Bee-Em-Tee" in 1977.

Now, on the flip side, the "R-27/30s" were built as replacements for the olde ...

Also lacking in the bus photo archives at nycsubway.org........

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Photos from the late 1950s/1960s of "Shermans" and "Pattons" running on Manhattan routes

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Early pho ...

W.B.:

Believe me, Your's Truly has MORE than noticed that 1970's-era photos of "stoa" buses in "da Bronx" are indeed far fewer in number than those showing the buses operating i ...

W.B.:

Funny, Your's Truly (to this day) never considered the "R-40/42" cars as "Eye-En-Dee" rolling stock, even they did, of course, operate on those routes.

I'll always asso ...

W.B.:

GOOD point.

Sad to think that all of the American car builders, which once supplied rolling stock to the subways, have long since vanished into history.

PATH ("the tubes") ind ...

Here are a few more early 1970s (Fishbowl) photos from Queens........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153272

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153251

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