#SurfaceSunday: This 1975 bus map of #Queens used color coding not only to distinguish between the borough's different bus routes, but also the variety of companies who oversaw them.

🚌 #SurfaceSunday: This 1997 @[email protected] #NYTMCollection training video was used to teach bus operators about #MetroCard transfers. MetroCard eliminated the need for paper transfers between buses and added the capability of free transfers between buses and subways. Do you remember paper transfers?

🚌 #SurfaceSunday: The first General Motors RTS (Rapid Transit Series) Advanced Design buses went into service in 1981. Their signature curved windshields are a familiar sight to generations of riders. They were retired in 2019.

#SurfaceSunday: This 1961 #NYTMCollection photograph shows General Motors and New York City Transit officials celebrating the new TDH-5301 bus model. The photo was taken inside the Fifth Avenue Depot, which was later renamed in honor of actor Jackie Gleason in 1988.

#SurfaceSunday: Taken in the 1980s, this #NYTMCollection photograph shows Bus #5127 on 42nd St in #Manhattan. Modeled TDH-5303, it was one of 350 General Motors “New Look” buses from the New York City Transit fleet that were sent for complete overhaul and rebuilding in the 1980s.