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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 10:17 am Post subject: |
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Dug this rare bird out of my files (I recalled this highly-unorthodox vehicle when I was posting the link to the restored GN "Bruck" in my previous post); hailing from Texas, this "BRUCK" could operate both as a road vehicle or a "railbus" (note that HUGE headlight, used when the vehicle was operating on the rails!)
http://www.newdavesrailpix.com/odds/tx/htm/hns02.htm
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traildriver
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | Dug this rare bird out of my files (I recalled this highly-unorthodox vehicle when I was posting the link to the restored GN "Bruck" in my previous post); hailing from Texas, this "BRUCK" could operate both as a road vehicle or a "railbus" (note that HUGE headlight, used when the vehicle was operating on the rails!)
http://www.newdavesrailpix.com/odds/tx/htm/hns02.htm
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Looks like the MoP salvaged that headlight off of some locomotive...it looks like it even has illuminated number boards on each side... |
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traildriver
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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Western Flyer was another pioneer in the building of "brucks"...I rode on one of these "Canuck P-41's" operated by the former Coachways system, from Dawson Creek, BC, milepost "0" on the AlCan Highway, over 1,500 miles all the way to Fairbanks, Ak.
https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/File:Manitoba_Motor_Transit_104-a.jpg |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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traildriver wrote: | NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote: | Dug this rare bird out of my files (I recalled this highly-unorthodox vehicle when I was posting the link to the restored GN "Bruck" in my previous post); hailing from Texas, this "BRUCK" could operate both as a road vehicle or a "railbus" (note that HUGE headlight, used when the vehicle was operating on the rails!)
http://www.newdavesrailpix.com/odds/tx/htm/hns02.htm
(courtesy: davesrailpix) |
Looks like the MoP salvaged that headlight off of some locomotive...it looks like it even has illuminated number boards on each side... |
traildriver:
I was thinking the same thing; I also believe that the headlight was salvaged from a scrapped locomotive.
On a related note, the MP also operated six postwar TWIN COACH rail buses, for suburban service out of Houston.
The modified Model 38-S's featured pilots, air horns, and large locomotive-style headlights.
A test bus entered service on the MP in 1947; by the following year, five more had been delivered.
A photo of one of these MP rail buses can be found in William A. Luke's "FAGEOL & TWIN COACH BUSES" book...... |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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Somewhere, I have a (misplaced) old issue of "MOTOR COACH AGE"; this issue was on "SOUTHWESTERN GREYHOUND", and it had quite a bit of interesting detail on the early/mid-1930's conversions of several YELLOW "Z"-types into rail buses, to replace locomotive-hauled passenger trains.
Here is an aspect of GREYHOUND operations that, today, is virtually unknown, except to the most astute historian........
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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Into the 1960's, the NEW HAVEN operated 10 MACK rail buses; these vehicles were based on the MACK C-50......
www.rr-fallenflags.org/nh/nh-rb12ggC.jpg
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traildriver
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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Now those are what I'd call, a "poor man's Budd RDC" |
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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traildriver wrote: | Now those are what I'd call, a "poor man's Budd RDC" |
traildriver:
.....may be, but, if a plastic RTR replica of this GM rail bus was made available, I'd sure as heck go out and buy a few......add an oval of "Snap Trak", a power pack, a few "Plasticville" buildings, and, dang, you've got yourself an economical little RAILROAD!
Or, should that be, "an economical little BUS line"......
"NYO"
All kidding aside.....imagine if PSNJ used these GM "Hy-Rail" buses on the Newark City Subway??
The old connecting subway-surface lines could have easily come back, using these buses!
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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Further on the MACK (FCD) rail buses operated by the New Haven RR:
One of these unique vehicles survives today up at the Danbury Railroad Museum......
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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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Here's an interesting rear view of one of the MACK NH railbuses, taken in 1952......
www.rr-fallenflags.org/nh/nh-rb10o02.jpg
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