DSR WOODWARD COACHES--#2 In January 1960, the DSR began receiving a new style type GM transit bus know as the GM "new-look" coach. Evidently, DSR management at...
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Sep 1, 2005 9:45 pm
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JUST IN CASE YOU MISSED A TOPIC OR TWO! In case you haven't checked them out yet, we have a number of messages posted over in the "DSR-2-DDOT" message archives...
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Sep 1, 2005 9:45 pm
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HB, Thanks for posting that great photo. Check out the twin Pepsi signs on the front of 1411. That bus coming up behind 1411 is a Greyhound GM enroute to...
D.S.R. WOODWARD COACHES--#3 In December 1971, the DSR accepted delivery of the first of 134 new GMC "new-look" coaches, model T8H-5307A. These attractive...
You're right Roy.....sound would have been a definite plus! Yeah, those old Pepsi ads were pretty much the norm on DSR buses during the late '50s thru early...
I was sent this yesterday in my email...so I thought I'd share it with the group. Gas Prices Make You Wanna Cry? .....Well then, just click on the following...
... Perhaps not Detroit, but it was standard all over. One thing was a Detroit(and I think a MUNI one as well) pecularity was that every route was on a route...
Thanks there Michael T. Greene for sharing that bit of info. I have noticed (or use to back then) that most transit properties did use the single sign curtain...
D.S.R. WOODWARD COACHES--#4 The interior colors of all DSR new-look buses prior to the #2800 series (1972) fleet resembled the colors as seen in this interior...
Good Evening, Everyone: September 7, 1955: Detroit's Michigan-Gratiot PCC line was broken into 2 routes and the Michigan portion was was converted to bus...
Reminder from the Calendar of DSR-2-DOT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DSR-2-DOT/cal STREETCAR SERVICE ENDED ON MICHIGAN AVENUE FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY Wednesday...
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Sep 7, 2005 7:41 am
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... those old Pepsi ads were pretty much the norm on DSR buses during the late '50s thru early '60s, especially the single large Pepsi cap ones. Hey, guys, I...
Interesting observation there Michael T. ....I don't really know what's up with that. Ironically, it appears that the Michigan marker lamps might not have been...
Yeah, I can understand you thinking that way regarding those Pepsi-Cola cap ads, Fred S, because you're right, they were quite prevalent back then. But for...
From time to time, we here at "DSR-2-DDOT" like to post little known facts, figures and trivia messages, we call "Factoids," to help inform our membership of...
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Sep 11, 2005 8:05 pm
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While I was out of town last week I got a little behind in my newspaper browsing.....and wouldn't you know it, there were a few articles focused around the...
Is it just me or does it appear that the City is turning over a fully-funded operation to the County? How does this save us any money? Perhaps, the article is...
Wake up people! The first step in getting rid of a city department is the removal of essential personnel! DARTA may be dead, the mayor isn't yet. As soon as he...
... fully-funded ... the ... Yeah, I kinda agree with you Patty. It really doesn't make much sense...but unfortunately, the creation of a legitimate transit ...
THIS WEEK WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE CADILLAC-HARPER LINE. IT'S ONE OF THE FEW LINES THAT HAS NOT GONE THROUGH CHANGES LIKE THE OTHER LINES IT STILL HAS THE...
hmmm! The following article ran in last Friday's edition of The Detroit News. I find it interesting that only one paragraph in the entire article (highlighted...
Tom's Trolleybus Pix? Hey, that's me ... Glad to be aboard the board. If you have DSR trolleybus pix ... well, you know. The two pix attached to this message...
OK Tom....welcome aboard. I never realized that you were originally from the Detroit/Highland Park area. I had an opportunity to run across your web-site some...
When DDOT coach #4220 pulled-out onto route #15 Chicago-Davison back on Thursday, August 25, 2005, that for the most part signaled the end of the delivery of...
Those group members whose email accounts are set to reject or strip HTML encoded email, or those members who elected to only receive group messages in the...
Reminder from the Calendar of DSR-2-DOT http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DSR-2-DOT/cal WASHINGTON BOULEVARD TROLLEY SERVICE BEGAN ON THIS DATE IN 1976 Tuesday...
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Sep 20, 2005 4:05 am
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Beginning September 20, 2005, the Detroit Department of Transportation will be accepting applications for the position of Transportation Equipment Operator...
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