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  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2026 10:24 pm   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
[quote="NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629"]it is also interesting to remember that, when the intercity bus market was steadily evaporating by the later 1960s, it is interesting that, as the years went o ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver

Replies: 1442
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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2026 11:15 pm   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
You're quite welcome. Even more alike with the MCI, were those coaches built across town from MCI's Winnipeg home by Western Flyer. The "Canuck's" were very similar to the Courier's and C ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2026 11:23 am   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
Lots of stuff on the Courier's here...

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/bus-stop-classic/bus-stop-classics-1946-1960-mci-courier-intercity-coach-first-of-many/
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 3:38 pm   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
The MCI "Courier"...........

These big, bold, and sleek highway coaches were once commonplace sights in Canada; both EASTERN CANADIAN GREYHOUND LINES and WESTERN CANADIAN GREYHOUND LINES ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2026 4:40 pm   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
[quote="NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629"]Recalling Chicago's Union Bus Depot...........

https://www.chicagorailfan.com/greystac.html

["CHICAGO EXPRESS"][/quote

The Loop terminal at ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver

Replies: 1442
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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2026 10:52 pm   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
You're most welcome!

SEG used their IC-41's on those named trips, which sometimes were extra fare, with reserved seating, and at various times had a hostess aboard, similar to Trailways Five Star s ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver

Replies: 1442
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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2026 11:48 pm   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
"Mystery "GREYHOUND photo, circa-1950........

Earlier, I was looking at a photo I found on the 'net quite awhile ago, and, oddly, for the first time, I noticed the reading on the desrinat ...
  Topic: Recalling the long-defunct intercity operators.....
traildriver

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2026 10:26 pm   Subject: Recalling the long-defunct intercity operators.....
See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington_Trailways



That wiki article needs a lot of editing. The original Burlington Trailways, a subsidiary of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quinc ...
  Topic: Toronto Coach Terminal: Old Bay Street/GL/Big Red, etc.
traildriver

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2025 11:46 pm   Subject: Toronto Coach Terminal: Old Bay Street/GL/Big Red, etc.
"CONTINENTAL TRAILWAYS" station, Pueblo, c. early/mid-1960s............

https://www.cardcow.com/380107/pueblo-colorado-continental-trailways-bus-terminal/



I recall that one well, d ...
  Topic: The Blue Star Route
traildriver

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PostForum: Surface Transit - Eastern United States   Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2025 11:19 pm   Subject: Re: The Blue Star Route
[quote="MaBSTOA 15"]Emblem found on the front of all Somerset Bus Line buses[/quote

That was to refer to Somerset operating on the Blue Star Memorial Highway (US-22 in New Jersey), to hon ...
  Topic: The BoT and the PABT
traildriver

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PostForum: New York City Buses   Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2025 11:18 pm   Subject: The BoT and the PABT
Great find, thanks for posting!

Rare to see PABT interior photo's....
  Topic: Toronto Coach Terminal: Old Bay Street/GL/Big Red, etc.
traildriver

Replies: 77
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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2025 11:13 pm   Subject: Toronto Coach Terminal: Old Bay Street/GL/Big Red, etc.
Here's an excellent page on the former GREYHOUND station in Washington, DC; there are several vintage photos here as well. showing the buses.

This is also a quite interesting article............
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  Topic: Toronto Coach Terminal: Old Bay Street/GL/Big Red, etc.
traildriver

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2025 11:09 pm   Subject: Toronto Coach Terminal: Old Bay Street/GL/Big Red, etc.
1960s view of the new GREYHOUND terminal at Milwaukee.......

https://www.cardcow.com/851732/milwaukee-wisconsin-new-greyhound-bus-station/



Always like that and other '60's era terminals. G ...
  Topic: Toronto Coach Terminal: Old Bay Street/GL/Big Red, etc.
traildriver

Replies: 77
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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2025 11:07 pm   Subject: Toronto Coach Terminal: Old Bay Street/GL/Big Red, etc.
Here's a beautiful 1950s view of the CONTINENTAL TRAILWAYS station at Colorado Springs; the word word "BUS" was indeed QUITE prominently displayed, as was commonplace with depots of that era ...
  Topic: Toronto Coach Terminal: Old Bay Street/GL/Big Red, etc.
traildriver

Replies: 77
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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2025 11:05 pm   Subject: Toronto Coach Terminal: Old Bay Street/GL/Big Red, etc.
traildriver:

Scroll down page to photo #28*; QUITE a MONUMENTAL structure, indeed! Shocked

https://www.bygonely.com/st-louis-1930s/

*NOTE:

IMHO, the photo caption is incorrect; I believe ...
 
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