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Dieseljim

Does anyone have any information about Blue and White Lines and Conestoga Transportation Company, beyond what I could glean from their timetables?

asdfasdf · Age: 78 Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 47

About a 100 years ago (it feels like it, at least), a Conestoga Transportation Company article was published in Motor Coach Age (August 1973 issue). I doubt it's still available from MBS.

Bob K

Mr. Linsky · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:56 am Post subject:

D.J.,

The best I can do at the moment is a few photos of Conestoga's Old Looks courtesy of Buslist of GMOldLookBus.

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

Dieseljim · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:35 am Post subject: Conestoga and Red Rose Transit

Didn't Red Rose Transit Authority take over all of Conestoga's regular route operation, leaving Conestoga as a charter and tour outfit?

roymanning2000 · Age: 75 Joined: 01 Aug 2007 Posts: 198

Jim,

Conestoga Tours is still going strong. Here is a link to their website.

http://www.conestogatours.com/

The Motor Coach Age issue covering Conestoga's history up to 1973 is not listed as available on the MBS website. However, back issues of MCA are often available on eBay.

If you do a search on Google Image, you'll probably come up with some photos of past Conestoga buses. Their regular routes were operated in later years with a mix of ACF-Brill C-36 and GM TDH3612 and TDH3714 buses. They also had some ACF-Brill IC-41's and, later, GM SDM5302 suburbans for charter work. In more recent times, their tour fleet included some Eagle 15 coaches.

Roy

Mr. Linsky · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 3:38 pm Post subject:

About all I know about Conestoga Transportation is as follows;

Thanks to my good friend Vince Syrek of GMOldLookBus I have discovered another ex Green Line (NY) bus.

Pictured below is fleet # 359 - a 1950 GM Model TDH 4509 operating for the Conestoga Transportation Company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania and originally delivered to Green Bus Lines of Jamaica, New York as fleet # 328.

Interestingly, out of the 35 buses (311 to 345) in the original order, 15 were driven in from Truck and Coach in Pontiac, Michigan by GBL drivers due to a shortage of contract chauffeurs at GM.

Three other 4509's originally numbred 323, 331 and 345 also went to Conestoga.

A brief history of Conestoga;

The Conestoga Traction Company was reorganized as the Conestoga Transportation Company in the early thirties and because of a drop in trolley patronage began the gradual discontinuance of the many trolley lines in Lancaster County and replacing them with busses.

The company still exists today in Lancaster under the name Conestoga Tours.

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

Dieseljim · Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:43 am Post subject: Conestoga and Red Rose Transit

Is my hunch correct that Red Rose Transit took over Conestoga's regular route operations?

HwyHaulier · Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Posts: 932 Location: Harford County, MD