|
|
| Re: Today In NYC Bus History.... (34404) | |||
 |
|||
| Home > BusChat | |||
|
[ Read Responses | Post a New Response | Return to the Index ] |
|
||
|
Re: Today In NYC Bus History.... |
|
|
Posted by Howard Fein on Thu Sep 7 10:11:44 2006, in response to Re: Today In NYC Bus History...., posted by B53RICH on Tue Sep 5 21:47:24 2006. Maybe Queens was late in getting the kneeling Flxibles. At the time I was a daily Q76 rider between Whitestone and Jamaica, so always got a good luck at the equipment from all three garages. I frequently walked around Manhattan in late 1975 but never noticed anything more than the usual MABSTOA 1963-68 Fishbowls. My only exposure to the Bronx and Brooklyn was from elevated trains, which made it difficult to notice many buses. So those boroughs must've gotten the new buses first.The first bus of this series I ever saw on a Queens route was on Christmas Day 1975. It was on FLU's Q16 on 29th Avenue. It had the hump on the roof for the radio transmitter that was absent from all FLU equipment except some of the 1962 Fishbowls. I don't recall the number, but it was not in the same range that would follow. It wasn't for several weeks that I saw another new Flxible on any Queens route. By February they seemed to be everywhere. During midwinter break I rode a Bronx bus for the first time, the BX12 on its old City Island routing. It was also a kneeling Flexible. They resembled the 1973 Flxibles enough to not look terribly out of place on FLU and QV routes- lack of standee windows notwithstanding. But they looked very strange running out of JAM, which had been strictly Fishbowl territory for years. Those running out of FLU didn't have the roof hump, but I recall that the ones from QV and JAM did. The same pattern existed with the 4300-4400 series 1970 Fishbowls that ran out of all three Queens garages. I seem to remember FLU initially having 7590-7599 only, with roughly 7600-7613 at JAM and 7614-7629 at QV. Someone else in this thread recalls FLU's stock going up to 7604. It so happens that FLU had 1973 Flxibles 7175-7204 at that time. |
|
(There are no responses to this message.)
|
|