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  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2025 10:08 am   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
Timeless......... Wink

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/792281759417380107/

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  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2025 1:10 am   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
Just my opinion...........

The now-classic 4106 still, today in 2025, reflects its simple, straight-forward design, a timeless design that was both modern and stylish in appearance.

Indeed, a tr ...
  Topic: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2025 12:58 am   Subject: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
Here is a rare color photo of one of the ex-"ATLANTIC TRANSPORTATION" ("GARDEN STATE LINES") White 798s, now wearing DE CAMP colors, as are the ex-"ATLANTIC TRANSPORTATION&quo ...
  Topic: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 1:01 pm   Subject: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
DE CAMP's formidable ACF-BRILL "C-44s" were integral parts of of my 1960s childhood; Mom and I rode these hulking "Rocky BRILL-boas" on the old #22 from JSQ out to Verona, to visit ...
  Topic: The "Em-Tee-Yay" goin' with 'lectric buses
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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 9:54 am   Subject: The "Em-Tee-Yay" goin' with 'lectric buses
The "Em-Bee-Tee-Yay" and it's "mentality"............

Up in "Bah-ston" they take away zero-emission trolleybuses, replacing them with diesels, which will serve until t ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 9:38 am   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver:

Cannot believe it is now roughly FORTY YEARS since I last rode (or observed!) a 4106! Shocked

Last I rode was an ex-"INTERCITY" coach, running on NJT's (ex-"ORANGE & ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 12:58 am   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver:

Here's another one for you; talk about a "Gathering Of The Classics!" (no wonder the driver seems to be a very happy mood......look at what he's driving!)Wink

https://w ...
  Topic: PSNJ: the last years........
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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 12:38 am   Subject: PSNJ: the last years........
"PSNJ goes Brooklyn" (1954/1955)..............

In the foreground we see two PS suburban Old Looks, enjoying a brief siesta from their charter duties at Coney Island, under the BMT El.

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  Topic: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 12:31 am   Subject: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
"Comparisons"......

Taken at about the same location (Lincoln Tunnel helix) in 1981, we see here two Fishbowls, one still painted in the original, time-honored DE CAMP paint, with the oth ...
  Topic: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 12:14 am   Subject: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
"Parlor coaches"............

By 1978, a quarter of DE CAMP's fleet was made up of parlor coaches.

Like PSNJ, company purchased its first 4104s in 1954; more followed in 1956, 1957, 19 ...
  Topic: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 12:03 am   Subject: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
DE CAMP's "bloodmobile" service........

Strange as it might seem in a commuter bus operation, DE CAMP once also transported blood on certain Route #77 trips.

This unique "transpo ...
  Topic: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2025 7:55 pm   Subject: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
WHITE 798s..............

The only WHITE 798s operated by DE CAMP were added to the fleet when they took over "ATLANTIC TRANSPORTATION" ("THE GARDEN STATE LINES") in the mid-1950 ...
  Topic: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2025 7:49 pm   Subject: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
DE CAMP's first Old Looks...........

The first Old Looks DE CAMP purchased were TG-4006s; these buses arrived in 1945.

In 1947, a group of TD-4507s entered service...........

"NYO" ...
  Topic: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2025 3:27 pm   Subject: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
By the time of this 1974 photo, DE CAMP had retired its once-proud fleet of Old Looks; for many years, these big buses were the backbone of the DE CAMP fleet.

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?15 ...
  Topic: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2025 3:19 pm   Subject: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
See also...........

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

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