Showing posts with label bus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bus. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Monday, October 19, 2026
I've got Angels in the Outfield on tv while I browse for things to post... and they used this old GMC for the Angels team bus
pretty darn good cast of actors, Danny Glover being a curmudgeon of a grumpy team manager... Joseph Gordon Levitt as the baseball loving orphan that can see ghosts, Tony Danza as a pitcher with a worn out arm, the wonderful Christopher Lloyd as the boss angel, Neal McDonough - who you will recognize as the blond with bright blue eyes that plays Dum Dum Dugan in Capt America, and Matthew McConaughey and Adrien Brody as team players - with a real short role for Dermot Mulroney. I was surprised to see Taylor Negron, who was a familiar sight in SO many 80s and 90s movies
Monday, October 05, 2026
Monday, September 28, 2026
this cute kids lunchbox was designed by Al Konetzni - remember 1st grade when you simply enjoyed the little cool things like a cool lunch box?
this is one of the many reasons I enjoy Facebook pages, there are so many that focus on a single thing, like this on https://www.facebook.com/groups/169550661538899/ one Disney merch/collectibles from before 1967
Monday, September 14, 2026
the Apr 22, 1967 Oak Lawn (Illinois) tornado claimed 33 lives and destroyed the bus yard of Suburban Transit System
OAK LAWN, IL -- By the time an EF-4 tornado tore down Southwest Highway in Oak Lawn on April 21, 1967, ten tornadoes would strike northeastern Illinois on what would be the worst tornado outbreak in state history.
Chicagoland residents were already hearing grim reports out of Belvidere, where an EF-4 tornado struck at 3:50 p.m., killing 24 people, 13 of them children who were boarding buses at Belvidere High School. An hour or so later, another EF-4 tornado slammed Lake Zurich, destroying 75 homes, an elementary school and damaging hundreds more structures. One person died.
But the worst of the swarm was yet to come. The precise moment the tornado hit the epicenter at 95th Street and Southwest Highway was 5:32 p.m., as recorded on a stopped clock inside Oak Lawn Community High School. Although the funnel cloud had touched down for only a few seconds, the largest death toll occurred at the intersection. Eighteen lives would be lost. Three people died at Fairway Super Mart, one at Sherwood Restaurant, three at Shoot’s Lynwood Tavern, two at the Suburban Bus terminal garage, and nine in cars waiting at a red light in heavy Friday afternoon traffic.
Chicagoland residents were already hearing grim reports out of Belvidere, where an EF-4 tornado struck at 3:50 p.m., killing 24 people, 13 of them children who were boarding buses at Belvidere High School. An hour or so later, another EF-4 tornado slammed Lake Zurich, destroying 75 homes, an elementary school and damaging hundreds more structures. One person died.
But the worst of the swarm was yet to come. The precise moment the tornado hit the epicenter at 95th Street and Southwest Highway was 5:32 p.m., as recorded on a stopped clock inside Oak Lawn Community High School. Although the funnel cloud had touched down for only a few seconds, the largest death toll occurred at the intersection. Eighteen lives would be lost. Three people died at Fairway Super Mart, one at Sherwood Restaurant, three at Shoot’s Lynwood Tavern, two at the Suburban Bus terminal garage, and nine in cars waiting at a red light in heavy Friday afternoon traffic.
Walter Sobut owned Fairway Super Mart with his brother, John, at 5951 W. 95th St. The afternoon of April 21, 1967, Walter had been collecting carts from the parking lot when cars began flying across Southwest Highway and down the street. Walter ran back into the store and told his cashiers to take cover. He grabbed onto the cart pole inside the store and hung on for dear life. The wind spun him around.
“He said he prayed to God that instead of breaking his back to take his life,” his daughter later said. “It was the second time he cheated death. He was the last guy off the U.S.S. Arizona in Pearl Harbor.” (Sailor Lauren Bruner was the second-to-last person)
Fairway’s roof fell in when the walls collapsed, killing three shoppers inside the store: Charles McNeill, along with 30-year-old Joan Casey and her 18-month-old daughter Christine. All lived in Oak Lawn.
“The roof on that place was humongous,” Rita recalled.
She said the customers’ deaths haunted her father until the day he died in 1996.
Monday, July 13, 2026
Sunday, June 07, 2026
Kenworth’s fairly extensive bus manufacturing history has been forgotten, but buses were part of its portfolio from its beginning as the Gerlinger Motors Co. in 1912, and at one point were its most profitable product line.
The Model T was built from 1949 to 1957.
While smaller and less powerful than the Hall-Scott 590 and 779 cu. in. engines used in Crown school buses, they were no doubt more fuel efficient.
Shifting was through a Spicer 5-speed manual.
Friday, May 29, 2026
Monday, May 11, 2026
the GM “Baby Fishbowl” thirty-footer had an optional 351 gas V6. Only 10 % got the gas engine, the other 90% were obviously diesel. The '75 Flxible “Shorty” New Look 31 footer were often bought by transit agencies that needed a small bus with more power for routes with steep hills
Baby Fishbowl above, Flxible below
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/bus-stop-classic/draft-some-of-the-many-old-buses-of-the-seashore-trolley-museum/
Sunday, April 05, 2026
A 2,000-year-old coin was unknowingly used as bus fare in England
The relic was collected in the 1950s by a Leeds City Transport employee named James Edwards, who tallied fares from bus and tram drivers at the end of each day and counted them.
Edwards would set aside coins that couldn't be cashed — including foreign or counterfeit currency — and take them home.
Now 77, Peter Edwards recently revisited the coin and researched its origins.
Sunday, March 29, 2026
Sunday, February 08, 2026
it's kinda weird to see a but pulling a wagon trailer... not a luggage type, it looks like a garbage type
Monday, January 26, 2026
Monday, January 12, 2026
Friday, January 02, 2026
Friday, December 26, 2025
Sunday, November 30, 2025
how does a bus, on a track, at a governed constant speed, unable to turn or speed up, kill 3 people between 2015 and 2021?
That's nearly a train.... so how did 3 people get hit by it? And die?
The govt says it was a lack of fences.
I can use logic, and figure out that if a fence would prevent people from stepping in front of a bus, then the bus and the fence were not at fault, people jumping in front of a bus were unable to prevent themselves from stepping in front of it.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
so... why did the bus topple over in Sun Metro's transit center on Feb 11th when it was on the lift?... the reason it blew up was a it's fuel tank of CNG puncturing when it hit the floor - and two died from burns - that is effing horrible. Hey OSHA, focus on this OSHA "certified" lift, and , not safety glasses!
The video shows a Sun Metro bus falling from a hydraulic lift about 1 p.m. on Feb. 11 at a maintenance garage at the Sun Metro Operations Center, in East El Paso.
It slides off center supports, and I don't see outriggers to keep it balanced on those scissor jacks... it slid off.
is this the result of getting rid of pits, and buying from the lowest bidder? Why isn't that bus on a 4 point lift under each tire, or each corner?
Monday, November 10, 2025
thanks to Kim for sharing his review of a artist's book that is not likely to get distributed in the USA. 'The Fantastic Bus' winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize, and adapted into a sold out play!
In 2024, the author and illustrator Jakob Strid was awarded the Nordic Council's Children's and Youth Literature Prize for his book 'The Amazing Bus'. It took him fifteen years to write and draw the book. He tells both poetically and seriously about how a group of different animals, from small turtles to lions and rhinos, set out together to find the magical land of Balanka.
The little bear Taku tells about how the gallery of characters in the story builds an enormous, four-story high, 10-wheeled bus. The prime mover behind the project is the cat Spir, whose green fur is due to the fact that he once fell into a barrel of radioactive slime...
An equally important main character is the bus itself, which in addition to its many piston engines has jet turbines and wings. It is all drawn technically quite correctly, which makes the illustrations extra enjoyable for car enthusiasts to study in more detail. It is clear that the author has spent a lot of time looking at and understanding the technology of trucks before putting pen to paper.
The animals' goal in building the imaginative vehicle is to find a flower that can save the sick Timo's life. This results in a trip through wild landscapes, across desolate plains, along a bridge over the North Pole and on to the other side of the world. The experiences along the way range from technical challenges to a meeting with the gods, to flashbacks about how they once tried to fly to Balanka in airships.
The book from the publisher Gyldendal is a small work of art, and can be read with equal pleasure by both children and adults. It is worth every penny.
https://www.gosee.news/loves/illustration for more images
The Fantastic Bus even put on a sold out show at the Royal Theatre of Copenhagen!
Oct 8-Nov 30
Life in Ahnstarr City is not easy for Taku, Spir, and their friends. Their small wooden houses by the harbor are being torn down, and little Timo is seriously ill.
Only the rare saffron lily, which grows in the dreamland of Balanka, can cure him.
When two old Phantom-8 jet engines from a failed expedition 25 years ago are rediscovered, and a plasma generator is brought back to life, Spir has an idea: let’s build a bus and travel to Balanka!
the new Fantastic Four movie has a cool variety of vehicles in the scenery, and a great recreation of the comic book Thing lifting a VW Bug
Notice the little green round thing in the far left above
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A bus called Swordfish? Is this an easter egg for the Jackman/Berry/Travolta?Cheadle movie where the helicopter picks up the bus and flies it across the city?
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This bus is a '62 Leyland Royal Tiger https://cars.bonhams.com/auction/17261/lot/228/blue-bird-the-ex-blue-bird-garages-hull-ltd1952-leyland-royal-tiger-psv11s-41-seater-coach-chassis-no-515490
What the heck is this little blue car? Gotta be Eastern European or a Hollywood creation
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and here's that little green round thing again, which was featured at Comic Con! https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/07/great-little-hollywood-prop-car-in.html
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