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Early Green Bus Lines453 views1933 Mack Model 6BC-3S at Chambers Street & Broadway. Photographer unknown; collection of Alan Linsky.
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Green Lines (ex-Manhattan & Queens Bus Corp.) 1151002 viewsGreen Lines #115 working route Q22 at the Far Rockaway LIRR station. Photographer unknown; collection of Alan Linsky.
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Green Lines 102999 views#102 - a 1954 GM TDH4512 44 passenger 'air suspension' job sitting on a cobblestone street in Jamaica, NY.
Notice the missing second set of wings under the windshield (probably the result of never being replaced after an accident).
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Green Lines 1131402 views#113 - a 1954 GM model TDH 4512 - part of a fifteen bus order (101 to 115) and the first to be equpped with 'air suspension'.
These buses eventually went to Kent State University and to various New Jersey operators.
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Green Lines 1551076 viewsGreen Lines #155 at the Rockaway Boulevard garage. This bus was sold to Chicago & Calumet District Transit Company as their #2977 in 1966. Green Lines photo; collection of Alan Linsky.
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Green Lines 306912 viewsGreen Lines #306 working route Q35 on the Marine Parkway Bridge. Photographer unknown; collection of Alan Linsky.
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Green Lines 307794 viewsGreen Lines #307 taking on Passengers at Riis Park Rockaway for the return trip to Brooklyn on the Q35 line. Photographer unknown; collection of Alan Linsky.
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Green Lines 3241932 viewsGreen Lines #324 working route Q9 at Rockaway Boulevard & Liberty Avenue. Photograph taken April 13, 1968 by Doug Grotjahn; collection of Joe Testagrose.
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Green Lines 3351575 views# 335 - a 1950 GM TDH 4509 photographed on a training run in Riis Park Rockaway - Fifteen Green Line drivers & one mechanic were dispatched to Pontiac, Mich. to pick up half this 35 bus order due to a shortage of GM delivery chauffuers.
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Green Lines 351966 viewsGreen Lines #351 working route Q60 on Queens Boulevard near Roosevelt Avenue. This bus was sold to AB&W Transit Company in October of 1966 as their #601. Photographer unknown; collection of Alan Linsky.
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Green Lines 3551078 viewsGreen Lines #355 in South Ozone Park. This bus was sold to AB&W Transit Company of Virginia in October of 1966 as their #605. Photographer unknown; collection of Alan Linsky.
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Green Lines 363895 views#363 - 1952 GM TDH5104 - the first 40 footers or 'gondola cars' as they were nicknamed - one of fifteen numbered 351 to 365 and used mostly to service Q10 and Q60 (Mr. Cooper's pet routes) - these buses were unusual in that they were 96" wide.
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