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Green Lines 942948 views# 942 - a 1947 GM Model TDH4507 (ser#0867) originally built for and rejected by Surface Transportation. Note the large old fashioned 'city' headlamps which were soom replaced by sealed beams.
This bus eventually went to Jamaica Buses
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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 TDH4509s844 viewsBrand new GM 4509s for Green Bus Lines on display at Queens Borough Hall in Kew Gardens in 1950. The sign between the middle buses reads "35 GM DIESELS FOR QUEENS COUNTY'S GREEN BUS LINES INCORPORATED." Photographer unknown; collection of Alan Linsky.
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Green Lines 3241930 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 3351574 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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Green Lines 904 (ex-Jamaica Buses 602)885 viewsGreen Lines #904 at Sutphin Boulevard & 91st Avenue in November, 1978. Photograph taken by Bob Hussey; collection of Dave Colton.
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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 1131401 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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