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In Article <5nub66$97i@panix3.panix.com>, fishman@panix.com (Harvey Fishman)
wrote:
>In <gallant.1216624484C@news.utk.edu> gallant@utk.edu (Gallant) says
>
>> Where is New York City's historical bus fleet?  NYC has a rich history of
>> bus transportation (especially the wonderful New Look years of the 1960s-
>> both GMC and Flxible).   Any suggestions (other than the Transit Museum in
>> Brooklyn which deals mostly with rail transportation)?  How about the NYCDOT
>> contractors like Queens Transit or Triboro Coach?  I know that Green Bus
>> Lines and Jamaica Bus Lines have gotten rid of their GMC's and Flxibles many
>> years ago.
>
>According to the people at the Transit Museum, they have a total of 19
>historic old buses in running shape.  They are distributed throughout the
>system at various depots with no depot holding more than 2.  I think that
>they are going to be displayed either this month or next at an event in
>New York City along with restored buses from some other systems in the
>surrounding states.

Whoa!  This is wonderful news.  Though, I must inquire- why in the world
does the MTA feel it's necessary to distribute these 19 vehicles at
different depots?
Do you know the fleet numbers of these buses? 

>
>Check with the Museum for more details; this was just from a word dropped
>in passing by the Curator of the Museum at an event the other night.  I
>did not pay much attention as my jaundiced view of buses is that they are
>smelly beasts.  Others' view may very well be different.

Yes, some of us do have a very different view  :-)


MIKE GALLANT
gallant@utkux.utcc.utk.edu