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Stalwart23 · Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 16

The following bus roster of Command Bus Company was taken from the March/April 1981 issue of Motor Coach Age.

The roster is intended for educational purposes for any bus fanatic/historian of this chat board.

Bus No., Builder, Model, Serial No., Passengers, Year, Year sold to Command, Former operator

200-202, GM, TDH 5301, (1421, 1434, 1431), 53, 1960, (1979), Pioneer Bus Corp. 1441-1443
203-205, GM, TDH 5301, (1428, 1405, 1403), 53, 1960, (1979), Pioneer Bus 1445-1447
206, GM, TDH 5301, (1396), 53, 1960, (1979), Pioneer Bus Corp. 1449
207-210, GM, TDH 5304, (534-537), 53, 1964, (1979), Pioneer Bus Corp. 1223-1226
211-212, GM, SDM 5302, (242-243), 49, 1964, (1979), Pioneer Bus Corp. 4000, 5000
213-214, GM, SDM 5302, (493-494), 49, 1965, (1979), Pioneer Bus Corp. 6000, 7000
215-218, GM, TDH 5304, (1274-1277), 53, 1966, (1979), Pioneer Bus Corp. 433-436
219-221, GM, TDH 5304, (1077-1079), 53, 1966, (1979), Pioneer Bus Corp. 1801-1803
222-223, GM, TDH 5304, (1046-1047), 53, 1966, (1979), Pioneer Bus Corp. 1807-1808
224-226, GM, TDH 5304, (1957-1959), 53, 1967, (1979), Pioneer Bus Corp. 1804-1806
227-228, GM, SDM 5302, (863-864), 53, 1966, (1979), Pioneer Bus Corp. 8000, 9000
229-233, GM, T6H 5306A, (049-052, 048), 53, 1968, (1979), Pioneer Bus Corp. 1227-1231
234-235, GM, TDH 5304, (2028, 2032), 53, 1967, (1979), Pioneer Bus Corp. 1809-1810
236-237, GM, T6H 5306A, (046, 044), 53, 1968, (1979), Pioneer Bus Corp. 1812-1813
238-240, GM, T8H 5306A, (033-035), 53, 1969, (1979), Pioneer Bus Corp. 430-432
241-250, GM, T6H 5308A, (003-012 mixed), 51, 1972, (1979), Pioneer Bus Corp. 7421-7430
251-265, GM, T6H 5308A, (058-072), 53, 1973, (1979), Pioneer Bus Corp. 7401-7415
266-270, GM, T6H 5308A, (213-217), 53, 1974, (1979), Pioneer Bus Corp. 7416-7420
271-287, GM, P8M 4905A, 1993-2009, 53, 1978, (1979), Pioneer Bus Corp. 7431-7447
288-290, GM, TDH 5301, (3443-3444, 3446), 53, 1962, (1980), Triboro Coach Corp. 796-797, and 799

I hope to add the Pioneer Bus Roster from 1954-1979 as soon as I can.

Stalwart23

Mr. Linsky · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 4:32 pm Post subject:

Stalwart23,

As the head of the unofficial welcoming committee, let me take this opportunity to say 'glad to have you aboard', and looking forward to your most interesting posts.

I was never much into the operation of Pioneer/Command because it came about after my time at Green Line, but I would certainly be interested in knowing more about Pioneer and what kind of equipment they operated especially pre New Look.

Your Command roster is great!

Thanks for sharing.

Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, NY

Free-transfer · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject:

Mr. Linsky,

Submitted for your perusal...A former GBL on the B-100
(notice the GBL seal on the side) 5-31-74

nycbusfan · Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 258 Location: Brooklyn, NY

Thanks for posting that photo. I'm in that area all the time and it has really changed alot.

Mr. Linsky · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 1:27 am Post subject:

Free-transfer,

Nice picture of Pioneer # 412 which was ex Green Line # 412 and one of 30 (401 ro 430) GM TDH 5301's delivered to the company in three shipments between July 1960 and June 1961.

#'s 412 to 416 went to Pioneer Bus Corporation as 412 to 416 in 1973.

#'s 401 to 404 went to Avenue 'B' and East Broadway Transit as #'s 507 to 510 in 1972.

#'s 406 to 409 went to Denver Metro as #'s 101 to 105 in 1973

The balance of the New Look 400's were scrapped.

Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, NY

ripta42 · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 11:02 am Post subject:

Thanks! I added this information to this Pioneer/Command/Varsity roster.

Waynejay · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 10:36 pm Post subject:

It definitely looks familiar. When I was a Baruch student in the mid 80s I remember seeing much of these buses being used by Command. Most of these buses had clearly seen better days. Command had also rec'd some much needed new RTSs.

Hart Bus · Age: 73 Joined: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 1150

An update and expansion on the above data.

1 - Bus # 235 - According to Joe Saitta's caption to the 5/10-5/16/98 week of his Mega-Calendar, this bus started out as #658 of Mid-Island Transit, then went to Pioneer as #1810, then to Command as 235 then leased to Green Bus Lines as # 1235 when it was photographed by Doug Grotjan.

I saw this bus in the DOT yard in East Carnarsie on 6/7/00 & 8/23/00 awaiting disposition.