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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Wed Jul 11 05:16:01 2018 Tuscarora Almanac July 11, 1936 The Book of First Runs New York City New York City Omnibus Corporation The Triborough Bridge connecting Manhattan, The Bronx and Queens opens today. A new bus route known as Route TB Triboro Bridge Line begins service as well. There are actually two routes. One runs between East 125th Street-Lexington Avenue, Manhattan and 37th Street-24th Avenue, Astoria. The second route to Astoria runs from East 138th Street-Southern Boulevard, The Bronx. A third route between Manhattan and Wards Island will not begin May 15, 1937. Source; New York Division Bulletin / January 1988, article by Mr. Bernard Linder Tuscarora Almanac July 11, 1948 The Book of First and Last Runs The Bronx, New York Third Avenue Transit Corporation Four Bronx streetcar lines are converted to bus operation; Rt. A Westchester Avenue to Bx-42 Rt. L Saint Anns Avenue to Bx-32 Rt. X 138th Street Crosstown to Bx-33 Rt. X 167th Street Crosstown to Bx-35 Source: New York Division Bulletin /1998-99 various issues, articles by Mr. Bernard Linder Tuscarora Almanac July 11, 1966 The Book of First Runs Manhattan, New York New York City Transit Authority IND Division Weekday F trains will terminate at Second Avenue instead of Broadway-Lafayette Street. They will operate over the local tracks from West 4th Street south. This extension is being done to permit the express track south of Broadway-Lafayette Street to be connected into the Chrystie Street Subway. Normal service will resume on August 30. Source: New York Division Bulletin / August 1966 Tuscarora Almanac - July 11, 1969 - The Book of Last Runs Brooklyn and Queens, New York New York City Transit Authority BMT Division This is the last day of PM rush hour skip - stop service on the BMT Jamaica Line. "KK" and "QJ" trains will continue to operate to 168 Street but will now make all stops. Source: New York Division Bulletin /August 1969 Tuscarora Almanac July 11, 2008 The Book of Last Runs Hoboken, New Jersey New Jersey Transit Rail Operations The last Comet I-B ("Comarrow") push-pull conversion cars operate in passenger service on NJ Transit, with car 5227 on train 1152 (Bergen Line) and 5232 and 5163 on 1612 (Pascack Valley Line), in mixed trains with former EL/NJDOT Comet I equipment. Built by St. Louis Car in 1968 as PRR MP85E6 "Arrow I" electric MUs purchased by New Jersey Department of Transportation for high speed Northeast Corridor service between New York and Trenton, these were among the few all stainless cars built by St. Louis Car along with SEPTA's SIlverliner IIIs (unlike the R38-R44 series built with carbon-based alloy with external stainless sheetmetal). The Arrow I cars were mothballed in 1979-80 and converted to push-pull cabs and trailer coaches by Morrison Knudsen in 1987-1988. The State of California (Caltrans) purchased 14 cars in 2008 that were rebuilt in 2013-14 and now operate on the San Joaquin line. This article was written by Mr. Kevin Wong Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Posted by W.B. on Wed Jul 11 08:54:48 2018, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for July 11, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Wed Jul 11 05:16:01 2018. After this and the next set of "bustitutions" of old TARS lines which would take place on Aug. 22, there were at that point four of five "pending" bus conversions that, in that form, never took place (and one proposed "bustitution" never happened at all in any form). They were:- Bx-43 - Broadway-Yonkers (reported Route 3; would be bustituted Nov. 2, 1952 under Yonkers Transit Corp. [ex Yonkers Railway Co.] aegis, separated by that point from Third Avenue Transit Corporation which was still in the throes of bankruptcy) - Bx-44 - Jerome Avenue (never converted at all that I know of) - Bx-46 - Fifth Avenue/Mount Vernon (would be "bustituted" as Westchester Street Transportation and/or Westchester Electric Railway Route C on Dec. 17, 1950) - Bx-47 - Mount Vernon-Subway ("bustituted" as WST/WER Route B on Dec. 17, 1950) - Bx-48 - New Rochelle-Subway ("bustituted" as WST/WER Route A on Dec. 17, 1950) Never accounted for, in documents of the Public Service Commission from which I drew the proposed Bx-48 line, was what would have been Bx-45. Evidently after Aug. 22, 1948, no further "bustitutions" of TARS streetcar lines under STS aegis with said Bx- numbers occurred, doubtless due to the massive financial difficulties engulfing the company that culminated in its declaring bankruptcy on June 21, 1949. As for TB, it proved to be the only NYC Omnibus route that was neither a "bustitution" of an old New York Railways trolley line, nor taken over from another company (i.e. the four crosstown routes NYCO took over in June from Green Bus Lines, or their August 1940 takeover of two former Triangle Bus routes). |
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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Wed Jul 11 14:50:33 2018, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for July 11, posted by W.B. on Wed Jul 11 08:54:48 2018. WB: I do not believe that the Bx-43-Bx48 numbers were ever used. They may have been used internally by Surface Transit but I don't believe that any buses carried them in service. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Posted by W.B. on Wed Jul 11 20:02:43 2018, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for July 11, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Wed Jul 11 14:50:33 2018. That's the point; those numbers were assigned by the Bureau of Franchises, but never used ultimately. And when the buses finally carried people riding the ex-trolley routes in question, it was either under WST or Yonkers Transit aegis under completely different numbers or letters. I knew about the proposed Bx-43, Bx-44, Bx-46 and Bx-47 designations from the 1943 TATS map out there, but found out from a PSC snippet on Google Books about the would-be Bx-48. And something tells me TARS/STS' financial problems after the last set of "bustitutions" precluded those numbers from being used. |
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Posted by 3-9 on Wed Jul 11 23:03:20 2018, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for July 11, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Wed Jul 11 05:16:01 2018. Did the Arrow I cars ever serve on the Erie-Lackawanna lines as EMUs? I seem to remember them operating as whole trains, though they had the MTA logo. |
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Posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Thu Jul 12 07:09:01 2018, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for July 11, posted by 3-9 on Wed Jul 11 23:03:20 2018. The Arrow I's were built as EMU's for operation on the former PRR electrified lines out of Penn Station in 1968. They were joined by the Arrow II's in 1975. The Arrow III's were delivered in 1977-78. They were intended to operate on the electrified line of the former Erie Lackawanna Lines out of Hoboken. However the upgrading of the EL lines was not complete so the Arrow III's were assigned to the former PRR Lines. This created a surplus of MU cars and the Arrow I's were placed in storage. The Arrow I were taken out of storage about 1987 and converted to non-powered coaches. They were then known as "Comet 1B." None of them ever ran for the MTA built they may have been used on Port Jervis trains from time to time. The cars that you saw with the MTA logo were probably the Comet 1A's. They were a total of eight cars. They were built by Budd and Avco in 1979 using Arrow III car shells. They were unpowered. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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