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  Topic: Museum of Bus Transportation having issues
traildriver

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PostForum: Bus Preservation, Conversion, & Sales   Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2025 10:19 am   Subject: Museum of Bus Transportation having issues
Just learned from these articles, that the MOBT, now a part of the Antique Automobile of America museum in Hershey, PA, is having to pare down what is probably the finest collection of antique and cla ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2025 9:47 pm   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver:

WELCOME BACK....it's been a while since you were seen in these parts! Wink

I would imagine that the classic terminal in that photo is now long gone, and the site now totally unr ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2025 11:31 am   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
A truly timeless, nostalgic scene from Philadelphia, circa-1955......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?19829

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)



I used to go to that underground Penn Center Grey ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2025 9:11 pm   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
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  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2025 9:11 pm   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
More than likely, Greyhound being the industry leader ran many more experimental buses that we haven't mentioned, from most of the leading manufacturer's going back in history...Yellow, GM, ACF, Flxib ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2025 9:04 pm   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver:

Appreciate the link....thank you!

If I am not mistaken, the only "experimental" coach that operated in (regular) revenue service by GREYHOUND was the "Golden Chariot& ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2025 10:07 am   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
Here we have two VERY fanciful (and QUITE futuristic) renditions of what postwar GREYHOUND buses might have looked like, had they gotten off the drawing board..........

https://www.pinterest.com/pi ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2025 12:05 pm   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
Thinking more of my "fantasy" Budd RDC inspired bus...

First off, they would have to narrow it down from 10 feet wide, to 8 feet (to 8.5 feet, nowadays), then they would have to shorten i ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2025 11:28 am   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
There have been several examples of highway vehicles being modified for use on railroads, but have you ever heard of the opposite? I haven't.... Wink
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2025 8:49 am   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver:

Check out these FEARSOME EIGHT-WHEEL MONSTERS built by "VERSARE" (photos on right side of page); man, those drivers must have gotten SOME INTENSE WORKOUT, piloting these behe ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2025 7:39 am   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
Can't help but picture this highly-unusual 1920s six-wheeler in early GREYHOUND livery....... Wink

https://jp.pinterest.com/pin/425379127282809243/

The cynic in me question's the motivation b ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2025 3:48 pm   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
Related trivia:

Front-engined buses like restored #1931 were often referred to as "pullers"; the more modern rear-engined buses were "pushers".

If you notice the many, many ...
  Topic: .....and leave the driving to us......
traildriver

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PostForum: Over The Road Carriers   Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2025 3:55 pm   Subject: .....and leave the driving to us......
Be sure to check out the interesting details of the "extended stay" of this truly MAGNIFICENT early-1930s MACK (#1931), restored on classic "GREYHOUND" regalia, easily recalling th ...
  Topic: The Cruise Ship Companies: What Is The Future?
traildriver

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PostForum: General Transportation - All Other Modes   Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2025 10:06 am   Subject: The Cruise Ship Companies: What Is The Future?
traildriver:

Good posts (and comments) all! Wink

Speaking of "glorified houseboats", I only wish I had the $$$$$$$ to purchase the SI FERRY''s "PVT. JOHN F. KENNEDY" when ...
  Topic: The Cruise Ship Companies: What Is The Future?
traildriver

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PostForum: General Transportation - All Other Modes   Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2025 7:28 pm   Subject: The Cruise Ship Companies: What Is The Future?
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shocked Shocked Shocked

Talk about the ULTIMATE "mobile home"!!! Shocked Shocked

Can't do better than the views afforded from this magnificent floating "re ...
 
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