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W.B.'s Rail Almanac for June 8th |
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Posted by W.B. on Mon Jun 8 07:57:40 2026 June 8, 1936 - The Book of First and Last Runs and Route Operational Changes Manhattan, New York New York Railways Corporation Green Bus Lines, Inc. New York City Omnibus Corporation Buses replace streetcars on the 86th Street Crosstown line in Manhattan. The trolleys had been run by New York Railways; in addition, there was already an existing bus route along the street which had been started as an "emergency bus line," Route D, by the city's Department of Plant and Structures on November 3, 1919, and since 1933 had been run on one-year franchises by Green Bus Lines as Route M-5. All bus service will now be operated by New York City Omnibus as Route 18 (today's M86). This was the last trolley line operated by New York Railways, the last of their routes to be "motorized," and the first of four Green Bus Lines routes in Manhattan to come under New York City Omnibus aegis (the other three will follow two weeks from this date). (Sources: "Knell for Trolley Line," The New York Times, June 6, 1936; New York City Omnibus Corporation v. Commissioner, Docket No. 2757, 7 T.C.M. 899 (1948), United States Tax Court, entered November 30, 1948; "New York City Omnibus Corp." by Bernard Linder, Motor Coach Age, February 1969; "New York Railways Cars Quit 70 Years Ago," New York Division Bulletin, May 2006; "New York Railways Street Cars Quit 80 Years Ago" by Bernard Linder, New York Division Bulletin, June 2016.) |
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