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Posted by OCTD 2039 on Sat Apr 23 02:42:41 2016, in response to My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by Catfish 44 on Fri Apr 22 23:35:47 2016. https://www.cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/General_Motors_T6H-5309AThe T6H-5309As were similar to the T6H-5307A models that were being sold to other operators. These were also the first buses to be delivered in blue paint. |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Sat Apr 23 07:41:35 2016, in response to My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by Catfish 44 on Fri Apr 22 23:35:47 2016. Going back to the mid 60's, my favorite bus was Mack C-49 #6129. IIRC, #6129 was the only Mack C-49 that had salmon colored fiberglass seats, while all the other Macks had pistachio green colored fiberglass seats. Rode that bus on the B-68I heard there was a C-49 with fluorescent lights, but never saw it. Bill Newkirk |
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Posted by Joe V on Sat Apr 23 08:56:57 2016, in response to Re: My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by OCTD 2039 on Sat Apr 23 02:42:41 2016. "They also had street level exhaust. "They preceded the EIP package out the sides of the back window ? |
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Posted by kcram3500 on Sat Apr 23 11:39:41 2016, in response to Re: My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by Joe V on Sat Apr 23 08:56:57 2016. The EIP was introduced in 1970 on the TxH-5305/5306 and S8x-5303 as an option. GMC would still build street-level exhaust if requested... some late US Fishbowls were delivered with the new rear-window air intake on both sides and street exhaust, instead of the EIP's usual curbside air intake and streetside vertical exhaust pipe. |
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Posted by B53RICH on Sat Apr 23 11:39:59 2016, in response to Re: My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by Joe V on Sat Apr 23 08:56:57 2016. The EIP package was included.6047 also made it's way to Fresh Pond as well. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Sun Apr 24 01:03:59 2016, in response to Re: My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by Joe V on Sat Apr 23 08:56:57 2016. No |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Sun Apr 24 01:04:15 2016, in response to Re: My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by B53RICH on Sat Apr 23 11:39:59 2016. When was that? |
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Posted by randyo on Sun Apr 24 14:31:18 2016, in response to Re: My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sat Apr 23 07:41:35 2016. I’m not sure about any C-49s but AFAIK the C-50s had fluorescent lights, at least the FACCO/Surface Transit ones did. |
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Posted by B53RICH on Sun Apr 24 17:11:53 2016, in response to Re: My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by Catfish 44 on Sun Apr 24 01:04:15 2016. Approximately early to mid 80's. |
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Posted by Westcode44 on Sun Apr 24 20:49:16 2016, in response to My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by Catfish 44 on Fri Apr 22 23:35:47 2016. I don't recall 6047 at Gleason,,but if it was,,wasn't there for very long.Blitzed GM 5309A's were coming back by then (5500-5527)WE-44 |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sun Apr 24 21:17:00 2016, in response to My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by Catfish 44 on Fri Apr 22 23:35:47 2016. I remember seeing an un-Blitzed 6000 in downtown Brooklyn when I visited in the July of 1990, maybe it was 6047. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Apr 25 01:34:32 2016, in response to Re: My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by Westcode44 on Sun Apr 24 20:49:16 2016. There were a few non blitzed 6000 buses at Gleason and at Flatbush in 1990 and 91 and less in 92. There was 6045 6085 as well as 6047. There were 6100s and a few 6200s that weren't blitzed. 6079 comes to mind as well. Ulmer park didn't have any in 1990-91 school year but by 1992-93 a few were in ulmer park. 6246 comes to mind particularly because it made a very strange noise as it was idling. That bus had been at Flatbush in 1990-91. |
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Posted by Westcode44 on Mon Apr 25 11:01:49 2016, in response to Re: My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Apr 25 01:34:32 2016. Yes those other numbers now come back to mind,there were a slew of 6000's in Gleason during the 80's (6200-6310) mostly from Casey Stengel (Flushing)Crosstown and Castelton. Museum 5227 was also assigned there for a while and retired there. Many of the BLITZED 5500's went to LI Bus(MESBA)prior to retiring. The RTS's were a radical change to the fleet after the garage was re-built in 1984 and re-named Gleason. Quickly thereafter, RTS buses began rolling in (3400-3484) and were a welcomed sight to the drivers assigned there.WE-44 |
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Posted by Westcode44 on Mon Apr 25 11:05:54 2016, in response to Re: My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by Bill Newkirk on Sat Apr 23 07:41:35 2016. Bill that may have been experimental MACK C49 #6049 assigned to Ulmer Park, that bus also sported slide windows even in the rear.! I'm sure someone has a photo of it or at least on the outside.WE-44 |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Apr 25 13:48:52 2016, in response to Re: My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by Westcode44 on Mon Apr 25 11:01:49 2016. They also had 6400 which appears to originally be 4400. Renumbered in about '85 when the RTS 4400 came around.There were a ton of 3400s and 4600s when I started school. There were 1981 models like 1500s as I recall. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Apr 25 18:21:09 2016, in response to Re: My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by Westcode44 on Mon Apr 25 11:01:49 2016. Do you remember the bus parked in Floyd Bennett along Flatbush ave? I think the Police Academy used it. I believe it was 6387. It was probably renumbered from the 4000s like 6400. |
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Posted by TerrApin Station on Mon Apr 25 18:49:37 2016, in response to Re: My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Apr 25 18:21:09 2016. This?http://www.railfanwindow.com/gallery2/v/TempByDate/album207/IMG_3765.jpg.html |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Apr 25 22:31:04 2016, in response to Re: My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by TerrApin Station on Mon Apr 25 18:49:37 2016. Not that thing the one I'm referring to was parked along side the old barracks right off Flatbush ave around 1990 or '91 maybe even '92. |
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Posted by TerrApin Station on Mon Apr 25 23:15:13 2016, in response to Re: My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Apr 25 22:31:04 2016. Ok. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Mon Apr 25 23:46:32 2016, in response to Re: My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by TerrApin Station on Mon Apr 25 23:15:13 2016. The bus in question was a 5305 model white painted roof blue stipe and aluminum siding below the belt line. It rarely moved and then one day was gone forever. |
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Posted by WayneJay on Thu Apr 28 11:21:50 2016, in response to My favorite Brooklyn bus was 6047, posted by Catfish 44 on Fri Apr 22 23:35:47 2016. These were my favorites, but "mine" the OA group (4800-4919) started showing up a bit later toward '73. |
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