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nycbusfan
Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 258 Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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aindellica wrote: | To nycbusfan, sorry that some of our staff at ulmer park don't understand what we do. They look at me funny too when I take pictures and I work there! O well,it's a free country ( at least for now ). Next time tell them Andy sent you. A good spot for taking pictures is Av U & East 71 Street where the B3 lays over,nobody will bother you there. @ |
Thanks Andy. I rode 8031 a few weeks ago on the B6 which was the first time I've rode on something non RTS other than demos on an UP line. I then rode it up to 71st and U as it was sent back out on the 3 and photographed the bus. Both operators were more than happy to allow me to take pictures of the the bus. BTW are you an operator at UP?
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Q65A
Age: 66 Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 1773 Location: Central NJ
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:10 am Post subject: |
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Nice pix! |
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aindellica
Age: 64 Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Posts: 8
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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Nice pics,busfan. Yes I am a bus operator for 29 years, 9 at Flatbush and 20 at Ulmer park.I no longer drive a route. I work 10pm to 6am in the garage as a shifter.I've recently been sending in parts of my huge bus picture collection to the bus talk gallery'including a few of myself taken over the years. @ |
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nycbusfan
Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 258 Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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aindellica wrote: | Nice pics,busfan. Yes I am a bus operator for 29 years, 9 at Flatbush and 20 at Ulmer park.I no longer drive a route. I work 10pm to 6am in the garage as a shifter.I've recently been sending in parts of my huge bus picture collection to the bus talk gallery'including a few of myself taken over the years. @ |
Thanks, I've been checking out your phtos over in the gallery over the last few weeks. |
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Q65A
Age: 66 Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 1773 Location: Central NJ
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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aindellica wrote: | I've recently been sending in parts of my huge bus picture collection to the bus talk gallery'including a few of myself taken over the years. @ | I just checked out your photos, Andy: nice work indeed! |
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aindellica
Age: 64 Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Posts: 8
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks,Q65A. I only wish I had started taking bus pictures when I first started my job 29 years ago. When I think about all the old buses I drove out of Flatbush in the early 1980's,all those 6000's and 8000's,all the original RTS buses from 1200 on. Their all gone now and I often search the bus sites in vain trying to find them all. I lament the fact that I could have had so many rare pictures of of buses no one will ever see again,buses that were never photographed,so many wasted opportunities on countless layovers.Let me stop before all the bus fans,including me,start crying.BTW,that green lines link led me to another site where I found a picture of a Flatbush bus that almost made me fall out of my chair! It was 8041,a 1967 gm without it,s batwings,still in service on the B41.Somehow,this bus had escaped the great blitz bus rebuild and was still buzzing around in late 1989 in it,s original state,minus it,s batwings. I got to drive it on the B48 that year,right before I transferred to Ulmer Park,and it was still fast and strong,a pleasure to drive.As far as I know,no other NYCTA bus was in service as long as 8041,( 22 years) @ |
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Q65A
Age: 66 Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 1773 Location: Central NJ
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Q65A
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aindellica
Age: 64 Joined: 09 Jun 2011 Posts: 8
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 5:31 am Post subject: |
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Thanks. Been going there for years. Need something new. @ |
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Q65A
Age: 66 Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 1773 Location: Central NJ
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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aindellica wrote: | Their all gone now and I often search the bus sites in vain trying to find them all. I lament the fact that I could have had so many rare pictures of of buses no one will ever see again,buses that were never photographed,so many wasted opportunities on countless layovers. | Nova RTS's are a perfect example of a bus that once was very common, but now is on the "endangered species" list. Time to get pix now before they disappear... |
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nycbusfan
Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 258 Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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aindellica wrote: | Thanks,Q65A. I only wish I had started taking bus pictures when I first started my job 29 years ago. When I think about all the old buses I drove out of Flatbush in the early 1980's,all those 6000's and 8000's,all the original RTS buses from 1200 on. Their all gone now and I often search the bus sites in vain trying to find them all. I lament the fact that I could have had so many rare pictures of of buses no one will ever see again,buses that were never photographed,so many wasted opportunities on countless layovers.Let me stop before all the bus fans,including me,start crying.BTW,that green lines link led me to another site where I found a picture of a Flatbush bus that almost made me fall out of my chair! It was 8041,a 1967 gm without it,s batwings,still in service on the B41.Somehow,this bus had escaped the great blitz bus rebuild and was still buzzing around in late 1989 in it,s original state,minus it,s batwings. I got to drive it on the B48 that year,right before I transferred to Ulmer Park,and it was still fast and strong,a pleasure to drive.As far as I know,no other NYCTA bus was in service as long as 8041,( 22 years) @ |
Time flies when your having fun. Before we know it the current 8041 at Ulmer Park is gonna be retired. |
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Q65A
Age: 66 Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 1773 Location: Central NJ
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:47 am Post subject: |
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Very true. |
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