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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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Posted by Catfish 44 on Thu Nov 5 11:34:47 2009, in response to Scrapyard question, posted by docstox on Thu Nov 5 11:02:58 2009. Negative |
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Posted by Mr RT on Thu Nov 5 12:49:14 2009, in response to Scrapyard question, posted by docstox on Thu Nov 5 11:02:58 2009. That was then, today the TA is afraid of the "a" word, so they don't want their old trains or buses to go to a scrapper.BTW, they have a buch of buses for sale at the Eastchester depot. |
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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Thu Nov 5 13:27:05 2009, in response to Re: Scrapyard question, posted by Mr RT on Thu Nov 5 12:49:14 2009. That was then, today the TA is afraid of the "a" word, so they don't want their old trains or buses to go to a scrapper.Trains, no, but buses still go to the scrapper, typically NIMCO (Naparano) Bus Division in Newark. |
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Posted by docstox on Thu Nov 5 14:04:45 2009, in response to Re: Scrapyard question, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Thu Nov 5 13:27:05 2009. Thanks for taking the time for the information.I guess the old Rockaway Scrapyard is long gone for buses. |
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Posted by docstox on Thu Nov 5 15:35:46 2009, in response to Re: Scrapyard question, posted by Mr RT on Thu Nov 5 12:49:14 2009. Can I ask what buses are for sale there and who would be interested in buying them? |
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Posted by busdude2 on Thu Nov 5 16:24:50 2009, in response to Re: Scrapyard question, posted by docstox on Thu Nov 5 15:35:46 2009. Some orion v's are there along with some old RTS's. If they were not scrapped yet. |
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Posted by Hank Eisenstein on Thu Nov 5 17:04:34 2009, in response to Re: Scrapyard question, posted by Mr RT on Thu Nov 5 12:49:14 2009. With the exception of the brake linings, there should be no asbestos in any buses the city has bought since the 1980s. |
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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Fri Nov 6 08:33:07 2009, in response to Re: Scrapyard question, posted by docstox on Thu Nov 5 15:35:46 2009. Can I ask what buses are for sale there and who would be interested in buying them?The only active listing is for 14 2002 Ford/C&E paratransit buses. |
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Posted by Bill From Maspeth on Fri Nov 6 11:09:02 2009, in response to Re: Scrapyard question, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Fri Nov 6 08:33:07 2009. If you ask me, these are a poor excuse of a bus! |
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