Mackbuses.net A collection of O scale model buses's guestbook

dave roberts

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:56:30 GMT

dave ;why not post the original builder of the master.seems fair,been building these for 38 years and always posted the original designer or builder.soon all this information will be lost.i have hand carved a total of 140 buses or more .you know this being a former customer.example; i poured reddens 4106 many years ago but with his permission.even though it is different type.any way i said my piece now i will exit quietly. dpr

David Eugene Ford

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:49:02 GMT

I .worked for schenectady transportation in the 60s along with nationwide tours we were at 1344 Albany street and had a garage across the street.it was one time united bakery.We also had a garage in latham for nationwide.alot of our buses were green and a off yellow.i later worked for united traction.I have a video of some of the buses.i had a friend that took it off a 8mm film,no sound. i only wish they had video cameras then

Marc Kostolich

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:57:41 GMT

Absolutely great collection and very accurate. Where did you purchase the bus models?

Donale Simmons

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 02:16:06 GMT

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

JRGach

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:37:28 GMT

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 roberts

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:45:36 GMT

hi ; nice collection some look very familiar. .dpr

Craig Horsford

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:08:21 GMT

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

john driscoll

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:26:26 GMT

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.

Doug Vernon

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:38:03 GMT

The Flexible Clipper is one of the most attractive buses designed. The Australian
type is a real beauty.

The footage of what appears to be taken the early '40's takes be back to my
childhood. Was that a Twin Coach I saw?

Excellent production...especially the early commercials.

Bill Fageol

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:38:26 GMT

Dave, what a wonderful collection.Particularly enjoyed the postwar Twin Coach models.

Best Regards - keep up the great work!

Jack

Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:09:08 GMT

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.

CHUCK

Thu, 28 May 2009 22:27:49 GMT

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.

Stuart

Mon, 11 May 2009 20:09:03 GMT

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!

JOHN

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:45:34 GMT

I LOVE THESE PICS,THE WHOLE LAYOUT.WHERE CAN I BUY SUM OF THESE BUSES

Rafael Estrada

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:48:12 GMT

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

Ashley Bruce

Tue, 3 Mar 2009 00:38:20 GMT

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

jaime flores-E.S.

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:23:52 GMT

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.

Jim Michaud

Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:54:54 GMT

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!

Jeff

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:55:31 GMT

Dave: Have admired your site for awhile now.

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.

Jeff W

widmarc clark

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:48:27 GMT

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.

Widmarc Clark