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Thought...........

Had WW2 not intervened, one cannot help but wonder if the conversion from streetcars to motor buses in Los Angeles might have been completed earlier than 1963?

Ditto for " ...

"Jetson" renumbering........

When the "Jetson" Fishbowls originally rostered by FACCo and "Soiface" became part of the :"Tee-Yay"/"stoa" fleet, how ...

W.B.:

By all means, PLEASE keep us all informed when you've returned from another "Brighton Belle" expedition (sure looks like that the "NTT brigade" is making steady inroads on ...

W.B.:

Indeed, it IS going to be a loooooooong and VERY turbulent "Noo Yawk" baseball season for "soitan".....I think it's pretty much a given that there are going to be so many ...

.....obviously, from what I can remember about this bus(so longago, now), some major developer was using to call attention to some sort of new residential complex.

Never got a chance to take any ph ...

W.B.:

EXCELLENT sources of historical "Noo Yawk" bus information,for cetain (ever refer to "MOTOR COACH AGE"?); must have taken years to fully compile the information you have f ...

OUTSTANDING collection color and b/w photos of historic Chicago-area rail operations ("L" lines, interurbans, streetcars, etc.)

The tremendous variety of both rolling stock and operations ...

In this 2001 photo, just prior to the retirement of the PCCs,, we see an outbound car about to stop at the Bloomfield Avenue station; the abandoned (inbound) ramp used by the "29" until 1952 ...

Haven't seen it in "Noo Yawk City," but it's evident how durable that design was.

W.B.:

I know that I am not the only "Noo-Yawk"-area bus enthusiast who noticed this "pr ...

W.B.:

If I asked this question before, accept my apologies....but HOW are you able to co-ordinate such a tremendous amount if data on historical "Noo Yawk" bus operations, focusing on ser ...

The type I am referring to...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153600

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153597

(courtesy:nycsubway,org)

["88"]

Fellows......

Last evening, I got to thinking about this "mystery promotional" bus that I would often see on Broadway (near Wall Street) many years ago (1980s? Early 1990s?)

This bus c ...

Also of interest.........

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

https://collections.trolleymuseum.org/items/142

['THERE'S MORE ROOM ON THE 'L'"

Until 1953, trains of the CA&E terminated in the Loop, at the Wells Street terminal.

After 1953, service was cutback to Desplains Avenue (Forest Park) where a transfer point was established whe ...

Here are two early PCC-era photos taken at Bloomfield Avenue, showing the abandoned ramps for the "29 BLOOMFIELD", which went over to buses in 1952.

When the "29" was still in o ...