BusTalk A Community Discussing Buses and Bus Operations Worldwide!    BusTalk Main FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups BusTalk Galleries   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Search found 22860 matches BusTalk Forum Index Author Message   Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 83 Views: 1808 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 11:21 am   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... 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 ...   Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 118 Views: 2379 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 10:49 am   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! Also lacking in the bus photo archives at nycsubway.org........ 1: Photos from the late 1950s/1960s of "Shermans" and "Pattons" running on Manhattan routes 2: Early pho ...   Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 118 Views: 2379 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 9:47 am   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! 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 ...   Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 83 Views: 1808 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 9:26 am   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... 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 ...   Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 83 Views: 1808 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 8:57 am   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... 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 ...   Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 118 Views: 2379 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 1:04 am   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! 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 ...   Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 118 Views: 2379 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 12:52 am   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! Here are two nostalgic 1971 photos taken at the 165th Street terminal.......... https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154673 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?153251 (courtesy: nycsubway.org) ...   Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 83 Views: 1808 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 12:35 am   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... "Tee-Yay" rolling stock running on "foreign rails".............. https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?24431 https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?113309 https://www.nycsubway ...   Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 83 Views: 1808 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 11:54 pm   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... Interesting.......... The "Eye-En-Dee's" new "R-1s" were tested on "Bee-Em-Tee" rails. In the last few years of service, prewar "Eye-En-Dee" cars operate ...   Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 118 Views: 2379 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 10:16 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! X-Astorian: Again, I thank you for this information; I had not the slightest clue that this route had so many "variants". This, now, has me thinking of the vintage bus photos at nycsub ...   Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 118 Views: 2379 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 8:05 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! Wanted to bring this up (as we had been talking about "INDY" Jones and "Crocodile" Dundee)........... In 1990's supernatural flick "GHOST", these station entrances at ...   Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 83 Views: 1808 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 6:10 pm   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... Speaking of shuttles, recall that, in 1920, the "Bee-Are-Tee" abandoned through train service between Rockaway Parkway and the Canarsie Pier. A track loop was built at Rockaway Parkway, a ...   Topic: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 83 Views: 1808 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 5:57 pm   Subject: On this day in 1964, we beheld the glorious future....... "Shuttles"............ Though there is, of course, the shuttle on the Rockaways, most folks, hearing the word "shuttle" automatically think of the famed TSQ-GC line. Of cours ...   Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 118 Views: 2379 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 5:44 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! W.B.: Thanks; this is EXACTLY the info I was looking for! Interesting, too, that these buses weren't the first "Noo Yawk" buses to have prefixes in front of the numbers; recall ...   Topic: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 Replies: 118 Views: 2379 Forum: New York City Buses   Posted: Mon May 06, 2024 3:55 pm   Subject: Indiana Jones storms the IRT----in Scotland! WB.: You're the one for this...... How many buses did the "Em-Tee-Yay" roster with the "PA" prefix before the number? 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