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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Mon May 09, 2022 1:10 pm Post subject:

"MIXED COMPANY" (W. 5th St. yard, 1955)......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156994

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["BMT-Brighton"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Mon May 09, 2022 5:35 pm Post subject:

"ON CHARTER" (Vanderbilt Avenue)......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156392

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["Vanderbilt Ave."]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Mon May 09, 2022 8:24 pm Post subject:

Speaking of "no respect", this photo depicts a group of MACKS at Coney Island, awaiting scrapping....Rust In Pieces, old friends..... Crying or Very sad

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/424323596116984584

["Last Stop"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 5:58 pm Post subject:

Handsome, now-classic charter buses on the site of the old Luna Park (Coney Island), 1954......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?88085

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["Luna Park"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed May 11, 2022 9:57 am Post subject:

W. 8th St., 1950's (TOO good not to include here!)

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?151515

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["D Coney Island"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu May 12, 2022 2:14 pm Post subject:

On this day, in 1955, the Manhattan section of the 3rd Avenue El was closed, between 149th St. and Chatham Square.

This 1955 photo shows the El station at Houston St.; of particular interest is bus #463 (operating on the "21"), one of the prewar YELLOWS that, in later years, was modernized with an Old Look-style front.....

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?87466

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["MUDC"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 12:32 am Post subject:

Compare these two views at East New York (c.1950's/1918)........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?97837

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?114239

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["ENY"]

W.B. Fishbowl · Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 6:06 pm Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 6:16 pm Post subject:

W.B.:

Welcome back....your valuable input was missed! Wink

I always thought that the remodeling of those old YELLOWS with modern Old Look-style front ends was quite imaginative; these were NICE-looking buses, which, IMHO, would have looked right at home with any of the Jersey City "indies" I grew up with, 60-odd years ago..... Very Happy

"NYO"

["21-Houston St."]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 6:23 pm Post subject:

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 12:25 am Post subject:

Marcy Avenue, 1959 (W.B.: You should like this one!)

Truly something for everybody here......aaahh, if only one could only travel back in time, and see and hear all this classic transit activity! Very Happy

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?69183

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["Marcy Ave,"]

traildriver · Joined: 26 Mar 2011 Posts: 2458 Location: South Florida

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 9:19 am Post subject:

traildriver:

Glad you liked the photo of your old "home station"! Wink

I would think that the less noisy of all the transit vehicles seen parading for the photographer were the trolleybuses! Wink

Though the elevated BMT line remains today, prewar subway cars have been gone for decades, even in MOW service.

Old Looks and MACKs have also long since disappeared from the scene, as have the sleek trolley buses (last runs, 1960) Sad

How much transit history was forever frozen on film, with this wonderful old photo....... Very Happy

"NYO"

["B.M.T. Lines"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 8:31 pm Post subject:

Broadway Junction, 1954.........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?75538

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["B'way Jct."]

W.B. Fishbowl · Posted: Sun May 15, 2022 4:30 am Post subject: