BusTalk

traildriver:

You are indeed a GENTLEMAN, and I DO sincerely thank you, my friend, with the kind compliments....MUCH appreciated! Wink

For many years, I was a member of a rail forum (and, in fa ...

The same yard, in a view dating to the 1980s.

Here we have a group of RTS awaiting their next runs, in the right background.

Note also, the ancient BRT line poles now carrying modern street ligh ...

Though an ancient "Lo-V" work motor dominates the foreground, note the line of Old Looks (aka "Shermans") in the background.

As these buses look to be in good shape (and are sti ...

Here are several interesting photos (dating from the 1950s through the 1970s, of a variety of buses (in service/retired) at the BMT's 36th Street yards...........

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

Another interesting "mystery" surrounding the long-abandoned "bus repository" between the El ramps at Fresh Pond, is that virtually all photos show Old Looks (aka "Shermans&qu ...

Interesting, also, to compare the original, 1900s-era mosaics in the IRT stations with the more modern, more "streamlined" tiled signs typical of the IND, by the 1930s.

Many BMT signs wer ...

In 1970, the last ex-SURFACE TDH-5106s were retired; for some time, they were stored in the yard at the Colesium depot.

One of these distinctive buses (with the protruding front sign box) can be se ...

In this photo from 1971 (which I linked previously) you can glimpsed an a/c equipped bus; I doubt if a bus this new (in 1971) was going to be scrapped, unless it had been involved in a serious acciden ...

In this mid-later 1970s-era scene, we see only a couple of buses dusted with snow; the rest of the area between the tracks is otherwise empty (the graffiti-covered R-16s in the background further date ...

...........as far as reporting about the current buses and what might be coming in the future, I, myself (and several others here) have NO interest in the current MTA fleet, which more resemble giant ...

Also, if you notice the photos taken between the BMT ramps at Fresh Pond, you will notice that the area was empty through the 40s, 590, and for much of the 1960s, with no buses to be seen.

It was n ...

frankie:

If you'll notice, in an adjacent thread, I've posted NUMEROUS links to old photos of NYCTA BUSES.....yes, BUSES.....stored at Fresh Pond.......and discussing these BUSES as well.

I've p ...

Near the bottom of the page, you'll see INDy upon his galloping steed, thundering down the tracks, with a train bearing down on him in the background, between stations........ Shocked

https://www. ...

Scroll down the page for an (interesting) photo of a gray-haired INDy ridin' the rails 'neath the streets of "Noo Yawk" (yeah, the other passengers DO seem to be attired a bit on the "w ...

Though this is, of course, an "Eye-En-Dee" station (145th Street), this 2010 photo is eerily reminiscent of the decades of decay ever-visible at the "Bee-Em-Tee's" Chambers Street ...