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Green Lines 906 & 907 (ex-Jamaica Buses 653 & 611)1222 viewsGreen Lines #906 & 907 after retirement in Broad Channel. Photograph taken April 13, 1980 by Doug Grotjahn; collection of Joe Testagrose.
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Green Lines 905 (ex-Jamaica Buses 654)1005 viewsGreen Lines #905 after retirement in Broad Channel. Photograph taken April 13, 1980 by Doug Grotjahn; collection of Joe Testagrose.
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Green Lines 904 (ex-Jamaica Buses 602)886 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 824764 views#824 - a 1939 Mack model CM3G (Ser# 1087) dressed for the 39/40 World's Fair, and the first with an 'Air Clutch' eliminating the clutch pedal affording a much smoother ride.
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Green Lines 730834 viewsGreen Lines #730 working route Q35 on the Marine Parkway Bridge. This bus was was transferred to Jamaica Buses, Inc. in the mid 1950s. Photographer unknown; collection of Alan Linsky.
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Green Lines 717744 viewsGreen Lines #717 on Euclid Avenue in Brooklyn. Photographer unknown; collection of Alan Linsky.
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Green Lines 716828 views# 716 - a 1938 Mack model CT3G (Ser# 1016) 37 passenger (@$ 9721.20 ea.) spending its final days in the Rockaways.
This bus must have been very close to retirement because the body was no longer kept in Green Line tradition!
Most of these buses eventually went to Jamaica Buses.
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Green Lines 629789 views#629 - a 1937 Mack model 6CT3S (ser# 1204) along with 69 other CT's became the backbone of the fleet in the late thirties
Photo taken while on loan to Triboro Coach in 1949.
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Green Lines 514716 views#514 - a 1935 Mack model 6CX3S (ser# 1014) - one of a 35 bus order (501 to535) and one of only fifty manufactured by Mack, and the last of the front engines.
This short 33 passenger job made the twists and turns of narrow streets much easier to negotiate.
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Green Lines 441652 views#441 - A 1933 Mack Model 6BC3S (ser# 1284) originally purchased to service Manhattan crosstown runs but spent most of its life in surburban Queens County.
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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 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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