"Max Finkel" (2fast2finkel)
10/30/2013 at 14:09 • Filed to: None
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"Max Finkel" (2fast2finkel)
10/30/2013 at 14:09 • Filed to: None | 1
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I woke up today to a film shoot happening on my block. Apparently, they are filming an episode of a new ABC drama called 'The Black Box,' and one scene calls for a city bus on Morningside Drive. Now, aside from knowing that it was weird to see a city bus on a street that hosts no bus lines, the bus itself was kinda peculiar as well. It was marked for line 'C3,' which doesn't match MTA nomenclature. Also, it was a model I had never seen in MTA livery before. It's a little old and does look a bit like a Flxible but I don't know what kind it is. I think it's an interesing bus in that it might be an ersatz MTA bus, and that we might have seen it in some other productions if that's the case. Anyone wanna help out determine what model it is and if we've seen it before?
timateo81
> Max Finkel
10/30/2013 at 14:19 |
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That appears to be a 35' Gillig Phantom . IMO they are not remarkably exciting vehicles - they're what many small agencies ran from the '80 apparently until early 2000s. They didn't sell to big agencies like MTA because, as I understand it, they just don't have the production capacity for that many vehicles. New to you, boring for the rest of us.
area man
> Max Finkel
10/30/2013 at 14:28 |
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Other poster is right: Gillig Phantom. NYU used to (still do?) run those in their shuttle service - better than the faux-trolley buses with wooden benches.
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timateo81
> area man
10/30/2013 at 14:38 |
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double'd
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timateo81
> area man
10/30/2013 at 14:39 |
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did a GIS and didn't see any Phantoms in NYU fleet. Lots of Orion Vs, which are analogous.