![(first posted 6/2/2018) A variety of auto and truck manufacturers were experimenting with gas turbine powerplants in the 1950’s and 60’s. Perhaps best known was Chrysler’s extensive turbine program that […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/maxresdefault-1-e1527387460257.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Bus Stop Classics: General Motors (GM) Turbo Cruiser I, II and III Urban Transit Coaches – Turbine-Powered Trio")
![(first posted 5/19/2018) A few weeks back we looked at Motor Coach Industries’ (MCI) Courier bus – MCI’s first mass-produced model and the forerunner for its later success in the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/500-2.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Bus Stop Classics: 1955 – 1968 Western Flyer Canuck Intercity Coach – Proud Canadian")
![Trolleybuses (initially called trackless trolleys) were once a fixture on American streets, either replacing or supplementing iron-rail trolleys. Prior to WW II, the three primary US trolleybus manufacturers were […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/unnamed-8-e1716334193215.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Bus Stop Classics: Marmon-Herrington (M-H) TC 44/48 – Post-War America’s Favorite Trolleybus")
![(first posted 5/5/2018) I came across these two on a recent Sunday Tokyo sojourn – one a full-fledged Brit, the other an aspiring impostor. Let’s first take a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IMGP2674-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Classic Outtake: 1960/70’s Vanden Plas Princess 1100/1300 – The Real Anglophile")
![Unlike Europe and Asia, most buses in North America have used one large, rectangular sign located in front above the windshield, to show the bus’s route and/or destination. But that […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/c58b4d84f3d640508a4145243b34e2cf-e1712059891389.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Bus Stop Classics Obscurity: Capitol Transit Buses and Their Three Panel Destination Sign")
![(first posted 10/31/2018) I really enjoyed Paul’s article on the GM PD 4501 Scenicruiser last week – and it got me thinking. That, and as you may have […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/d4505-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Bus Stop Classics: Greyhound’s Current Bus Fleet – Hopefully Eye-Opening")
![The smallest urban transit bus typically falls into the 25-29 passenger range – that’s true today and was also true during the pre and post-WWII period. Here’s a bus that […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/oo1948_ACF_Willys_1-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Bus Stop Classic Obscurity: 1947 ACF-Brill C-10 – Short and Sweet")
![We take it for granted today that any vehicle we get into – from the smallest, cheapest compact car to the largest truck or bus will come standard with a […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/img_3480_2_625-e1710148194968.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Bus Stop Classics Obscurity: 1948 ACF-Brill C-36 — The First Production Air Conditioned Transit Bus")
![(first posted 2/17/2018) What a beauty – this is a 1941 White 700 Series Transit coach, modified as a Suburban model, and outfitted as a mobile […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/White-Highway-Post-Office-bus-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Bus Stop Classics: 1941 White Postal Service Bus – Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor Flat Tire…")
![In the decade of the 1950’s, Brazil was a prime market for GM’s intercity coaches. The country’s own bus manufacturing was still in its infancy, and large numbers of GM’s […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/FlechaAzulViacaoCometa-e1706754629319.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Bus Stop Classics: Ciferal Dinosaur/Cometa Arrow – Brazil’s “Buffalo”")
![(first posted 1/19/2018) Here’s another bus you would have likely seen or ridden in if you were spending time in any large North American metropolitan area […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Omaha_1947_Twin_Coach_bus_1312_at_Seashore_Trolley_Museum-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Bus Stop Classics: 1946 – 1959 Flxible Twin Coach Transit Bus – Chicago’s Favorite")
![Inclines, or more accurately incline plane railways, were once ubiquitous in the US. Developed to conquer the tyranny of elevation, many of these inclines were designed by European immigrants where […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/incline-mtadams7.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Trackside Classic: Cincinnati Mount Adams Incline – Upward Bound")
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