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  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: Mon Feb 10, 2025 12:40 am   Subject: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
Further:

Second-hand DE CAMP buses (WW2).............

During the War, DE CAMP also (in addition to GREYHOUND) purchased used buses from:

CHAMPLAIN COACH COMPANY

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

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 12:25 am   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
See also.............

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Belt_Stages (now defunct)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_Stage_Lines (subsidiary of Salt Lake Express since 2022)

[" ...
  Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 12:11 am   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
Multiple (and extensive) LARy photo galleries.......

www.newdavesrailpix.com/lax/lax.htm

["P-PICO TO RIMPAU"]
  Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 7:21 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
Cyberider:

This should provide you with several hours of interesting viewing....... Wink

(there are also some photos of the "Blimp" repainted in the new two-tone green scheme; also, ...
  Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 7:14 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
NYO,

I think that green and white "Blimp" was in the LAMTA livery. I think that repainting took place in 1960, a year before the Long Beach Line was shut down. LAMTA took over operation ...
  Topic: The RAREST toy "SCENICRUISERS" of all------
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: The Bus Modeler   Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 2:41 pm   Subject: The RAREST toy "SCENICRUISERS" of all------
What you see here is typical of the big tin litho "SCENICRUISERS" of tha late 1950s and early 1960s; though I have a number of similar toys, I sure wish I had this one in my collection today ...
  Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 2:29 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
Just saw a post on FB by the Lomita Railroad Museum that they may be acquiring the reproduction PE 500 car that had run as the San Pedro trolley for a few years. If that happens, I guess the San Pedr ...
  Topic: The RAREST toy "SCENICRUISERS" of all------
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: The Bus Modeler   Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 2:20 pm   Subject: The RAREST toy "SCENICRUISERS" of all------
WAnted to mention this one again......

I know this is hard to believe, but I never had this magnificent toy as a kid; nor do I have one in my collection today.......this was another BIG tin litho, ...
  Topic: NYC/London congestive pricing (Eyewitness News)
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 12:30 am   Subject: NYC/London congestive pricing (Eyewitness News)
Back in the day, REAL buses WERE NOT afraid of SNOW!!!!! Shocked Shocked Shocked Shocked

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156985

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154838

https://www. ...
  Topic: The "Em-Tee-Yay" goin' with 'lectric buses
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 12:16 am   Subject: The "Em-Tee-Yay" goin' with 'lectric buses
W.B.:

IMHO, I know there are indeed folks up in "Bah-ston" that were NOT happy campers when the "T" pulled the plug on the Cambridge trolleybus lines, a few years back.

Curio ...
  Topic: NYC/London congestive pricing (Eyewitness News)
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 12:09 am   Subject: NYC/London congestive pricing (Eyewitness News)
And now comes word that the so-called "Artics" - a.k.a. the "Slinkies" or "rolling Wurlitzers" (only without the music) - are all confined to their respective depots as t ...
  Topic: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Everywhere Else   Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2025 9:39 pm   Subject: Electrico Carro Fiesta!
"METROPOLITAN COACH LINES" tt (1957)................

In my collection I have a LAMCL tt from 1957; on the front is a drawing of a uniformed driver tipping his cap, and saying:

"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: Sat Feb 08, 2025 9:25 pm   Subject: DeCamp Bus Lines to end commuter service to NYC
Further...........

Recall that, earlier, I'd mentioned that DE CAMP had purchased older-model (front engine) YELLOWS from GREYHOUND, to increase their fleet (and also to add more frequent service, ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2025 6:01 pm   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver:

You should find this of interest...... Wink

https://southeasternstages.com/about-us/our-history/ (nostalgia!) Very Happy

https://southeasternstages.com/about-us/fleet-and-facilities/
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2025 11:47 am   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
Recalling now those long-gone days when GREYHOUND was still the King Of The Road, and GM-built buses were the backbone of their vast fleet....... Wink

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/7922817594173 ...
 
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