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Posted by docstox on Thu Nov 5 11:02:58 2009 I came across an old article I clipped out of the Daily News Sunday magazine section in 1965. It's titled "Where old buses go". The article reads:"They're stripped and scrapped at Rockaway Beach yard." "Old buses, unlike old soldiers, do die.In fact, a lot of those retired from New York City service suffer dismemberment at worker's hands in the Independent Scrap iron and Metal Corporation's yard at Rockaway Beach, N.Y. The considerable amount of aluminum and copper stripped from the hulks goes to domestic mills for resmelting;salvaged steel to both domestic and foreign mills.Diesel motors, wheels and tires go back to texas outfit which provided them, for rebuliding, reissue" There is a huge 3 bus high stack of old looks in Fifth Avenue Coach and Surface Transportation livery ready to be junked. Is this scrap yard in Rockaway still in existence and do they still take old city buses? |
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