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Posted by SUBWAYSURF on Sat Jul 31 12:39:54 2010, in response to Re: The South Bronx of the 1980's, posted by LuchAAA on Sat Jul 31 10:55:38 2010. It's the back of a GM New Look a/k/a "fishbowl" with no A/C. A mainstay of surface transit in US and Canada from 1959 on. last manufactured in 1986. The last private operator in the NYC area to use "new looks" was NY Bus Service, in "suburban" configuration (high back seats, reading lamps, luggage racks and no rear exit door) until about 5(?) years ago when the operator and others was acquired by the MTA. There was a modified version called the "new look classic" that is still used in Toronto and was manufactured by MCI who acquired GM coach,until 1993, when GM got out of the coach business for good. It continued to be manufactured by NOVAbus, with the Canadian market being the primary customers,until 1997. NovaBus also made Classics in the US in 1995 and 1996 from its now-defunct New York state plant. That version are the ones that are used in Buffalo, Connecticut, Rochester, the suburbs of Chicago (Pace), and Pittsburgh, who was the last transit agency in the U.S. to acquire Classics.* If you ever visit Toronto you'll see tons of them, originals and classics, still in everyday service (even some as trolley buses). They were tough buses.The one in the picture looks to be non-TA, I could be wrong about the non-TA part but I'm 80% certain it is not TA, maybe former TA. WITHOUT A/C  WITH A/C  \MCI New Look Classic From a former "private" acquired by the MTA. In "MTA Bus" livery  A classic in Liberty Lines livery. IINM, this bus is owned by an occasional poster to Buschat, I am cross posting this thread to Buschat to correct any errors I may have made. This concludes your "Bus Lesson For Rail-fans" class for today. There WILL be a quiz. LOL *Fact, about US plant, courtesy of wiki. |
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