Wow great work I grew up riding NEWJERSEY TRANSIT the buses look good right on point I love them I'm starting my bus collection where can i buy some of these NJ TRANSIT buses
There's simply NO ONE that matches Dave's work. I've had the good fortune to get acquainted with him over the last eight months. His commitment to excellence, detail and realism make each and every one of his coaches a true work of art. The photos speak for themselves.
Dave, hello there. I grew up with riding Red & Tan, Orange & Black, DeCamp, Public Service, Asbury Park Keansburg Long Branch fishbowls. You did a wonderful job painting these buses. Does anyone have these fishbowls for sale? Shortline, don't remember fishbowls for them but I like how they look. Lincoln & Manhattan Lines fishbowls. Corgi or somebody needs to reproduce these buses. Thanks, C Horsford
I have always been a bus freak since we traveled on them frequently when i was young and my father would be changing jobs often. we were stuck in hotels with no toys but used the greyhound baggage tags(highway traveler)as toys busses. i have the bus station you have in your photos and i have the silversides and scenecruiser plus greyhound and trailways gm city parlor coaches, and a flixible clipper on order, but i keep hoping corgi makes a ACF Brill and the other GM coaches popular in the 50's and 60's.....i remember a fairly decent Trailways ACG BRill Toy that was made in Plastic that was accurate then there was a poor plastic thruliner or viewliner that was pretty cheap and generic toy value only, my question is where do you get all of the great models you have in your photos? are there any links? thanks for the great site.
I too was born and grew up in Albany in the late 50's. I found your site doing research on the United Traction Co and the "old look" GM busses. I am not a collector but an avid fan of that era of Coach as you have many times have ridden the Central Avenue bus "downstreet". Your impeccable painting and details of those models and the RT 5 Schenectady lines have brought back many pleasant memories of an earlier and simpler time. I thank you for that. Any other sources of pictures of the UTC busses would be appreciated.
Dave, I just spent an hour viewing the models. Great work. As a kid, I'd sneak into the bus barns in NYC, and Rochester when they were privately owned firms, just to look at the vehicles. My current favorites are Bluebird Emergency conversions. I do have the Corgi Peoria and CFD in 1/50th. Presently I'm trying to figure out how to dismantle a 1/46th Danbury Mint Team Bus so I can repaint model, but can't free rear chassis section. Again, great site.
Just discovered your site today and it's very exciting. Found the photos of the Brill and GM Inter-City Lines buses (Paterson, NJ). I gather the Brill is not for sale. Are they still obtainable anywhere? Any suggestions how I could get a Corgi GM model repainted into the Inter-City Lines livery? About 53 years ago I used to ride the #30 from Passaic, NJ into NYC at 6:45 AM every morning to go to school, and I have fond memories of the old brown and orange buses. I'd kill (almost) to get a model of that in my collection!
Hi Dave, I really have a great time looking at your model buses. Looking at them really reminds me my country (Cuba) There are so many buses like the ones in your model still in use there. Your models are so perfect!!!. I wonder if they are for sale, and if they are, I would like to know how much they are for. Thank you, Rafael
Hi, Really nicely presented collection of really nice models! Do you know if there were ever any models of trolley coaches made in the USA? Manny thanks, Ashley Bruce
Colecciòn is excellent since it motivates to us and màs gets passionate to us every time to which of children we are loving of the buses, felicidaes and ahead in all futros projects. Jaime flowers - the SALVADOR.
Guest Jim Michaud wrote:
9 February, 2009 - 8:54
Dave, We've known each other a long time. I am aware of the quality of work you do first-hand, but it seems each and every time I come to visit this site, I am truly in 'awe' of the work you do. Not only the paint and body work on the buses, but the buildings, people, cars and sceinery that goes along with your collections. There are MANY very tallented people out there doing this, but I believe you are the very best. Keep up the good work!
I spent 30 years in the bus business and started with 4104's and 4106's. I drove the Schenck 505 you modeled.
I also knew Bob Redden and attened his Bus Bashs at DuFour, Blue Bird and Michaud. I have on of his 4104 castings he gave me as a gift.
It's scary when you remember the O&B fishbowls, time spent in the Manhattan Transit garage, and most of all, the Carey coaches.
When I graduated from college., I started in the bus business driving a school bus on LI. When of my stops was at the Carey residence. He offered me my first job driving coaches.
Please keep doing your fine work. It evokes great memories when the industry was at it's peak.
Dave your models are the absolute best models I've seen in all my 55 years looking a bus models. I collected models of the 3751 in Greyhound stations in the early 50's. Trailways had a model of the 4103 I still have along with the 3751 Greyhound, all collected in the early 50's.
I have most of the coach's of the 50's in my collection. However nothing I have in my collection can equal your collection. I'd say you have the best private collection of coach's of the 50's in America.
At first I thought they were actual pictures of coach's, had to look very close zoom in and really look some more to tell they are models. I bought models from Robert Redden, Dave Pendleton of Mass, and others back 30 years ago, and thought I had gotten great coach's and they were fine. I've been a bus nut since I was 5 yrs old, I'm 67 and still love the coach's of the late 30's, 40's and 50's. I drove for trailways for Eyre's bus service in Woodbine, Md. they had 4103's and 4's in service back in 1969.
I drove IC-41 Brills for a church group in Silver Spring, Md. I had a buddy who drove for Trailways out of Washington. D.C. who went by the handle of Pee Wee. As a matter of fact Pee Wee in standing beside the Silver Eagle when Trailways opened their new bus terminal there, those pictures are on someone's Trailways web/side. Pee Wee was a character he and Trailways parted ways over some disagreement out at the Trailways garage on Kenilworth ave in D.C. He was a very good machanic and left there to haul cars for Harold Barnes in Silver Spring, then later went to work for Ernst Tubb driving his Vl-100. Then on the Nashville to drive for Hank Williams Jr.
No one could get Hanks Pd-4101 scenicruser to operate properly. Pee Wee told Hank he could. He took a transmission out of a Vl-100 turned the gears around backward, in doing so the coach became a high speed hauler. Pee Wee told me he could bury the speed-o-meter and the coach just kept going. I haven't seen Pee Wee since 1968. What a guy.
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Guest Michael A. wrote:
23 November, 2008 - 18:55
Dave, Just love your new model of the ACF in Westwood Transportation. Looks great next to the Inter City old look. I've seen shots of the ACF in another two tone blue scheme which Westwood owned. Also their family owned Manhattan Transit Company had some neat looking red ACF's also. Maybe you get to one of the twenty Public Service ACF's next. Great work. Happy Holidays. Michael.
Hello Dave-----Your Models are unbelievable - your work is more than outstanding. I have been looking to detail the many Jimson MCI's that I have. A long while ago I was able to buy Wheels on eBay from a guy down south, I think in Louisiana. I believe he went under the name of Modelbuslines. Needless to say I have los this contact information, and I was hoping that you might have contact information for him. I appreciate any assistance that you can give me and also any othe rinformation as to where I Might be able to buy other parts for these JImson models to make them more realistic. THanks - and happy holidays to you.
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