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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 10:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 1:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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...
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 2:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 2:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 3:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

See also:

www.rr-fallenflags.org/nh/nh0018u01.jpg

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 3:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's an interesting page (with some great international photos!)........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railbus
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 3:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Now, here's a TRUE "rail-BUS"! Wink

https://www.newdavesrailpix.com/pw/htm/pw126.htm

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 5:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's experimental "Hy-Rail" Fishbowl bus again, this time being demonstrated up at the Branford (now Shore Line) Trolley Museum, many years ago......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?10979

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?10980

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?10981

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 6:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Now those are what I'd call, a "poor man's Budd RDC" Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

traildriver wrote:
Now those are what I'd call, a "poor man's Budd RDC" Laughing


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! Wink

Or, should that be, "an economical little BUS line"...... Rolling Eyes

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All kidding aside.....imagine if PSNJ used these GM "Hy-Rail" buses on the Newark City Subway?? Shocked

The old connecting subway-surface lines could have easily come back, using these buses! Wink

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 8:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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...... Wink

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 9:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Left-hand side view of NH #18, taken in 1962.......

www.rr-fallenflags.org/nh/nh-RB018u02.jpg

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