Talk:Queens Surface Corporation

QUEENS SURFACE HISTORY FROM QS WEBSITE
The QS website: |Queens Surface Lines History is on borrowed time. Eventually, it will be abandoned - they stopped updating it when MTA Bus took over. - SSG Cornelius Seon (Retired) 20:26, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Surface Corporation is the successor to a long line of companies extending back to the inception of horsecar service in the Village of Astoria in the 1860s. In 1988, Queens Surface Corporation was formed to replace the Queens/Steinway Transit Corporation (Q/STC), which was established from the merger of the Queens Transit Corporation and the Steinway Transit Corporation in 1986. Q/STC was owned by the Salzberg interests, a scrap metal and short line railroad operator, since it acquired the old New York & Queens County Railway Company in 1932. This acquisition was made for the purpose of replacing the street railway operations with buses and selling the scrap steel.
 * There's more on the history of the two trolley companies(New York and Queens County Railway and Steinway Railway) that eventually became part of Queens Surface in "Lost Trolleys of Queens and Long Island," by Stephen L. Meyers. If they won't survive as separate articles (and I have a strong feeling they won't), you can add them to the history section of this article. You might be able to get it on Kindle, and if not, I can rummage through a shelf and grab my own copy out of storage. -User:DanTD (talk) 06:06, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

More history on SubChat
Got some QSC and Steinway Transit bus maps on a thread on Subchat. It's really too bad that forums are considered unreliable sources, even though it's normally understandable. -User:DanTD (talk) 17:57, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

Jones Beach Buses
A bit of evidence that one of the predecessors of Queens Surface (Queens Transit) had buses serving Jones Beach. Any info on this before I submit my reformatted version of the bus routes? -User:DanTD (talk) 21:11, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I have two sandboxes for Queens Transit Buses and Steinway Transit Buses that are nearly ready for reformatting, and I still don't have any info on the former Jones Beach routes. -User:DanTD (talk) 12:23, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Reformatted bus route list
Nobody has commented on my effort to add a new version of the list of bus routes. So let me show it off;

I'm still puzzled over the Jones Beach Bus Route. Let me know what you people think of this version. -User:DanTD (talk) 18:17, 26 June 2017 (UTC)