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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"......the 'hounds' in the 'kennel'......" Wink

http://www.greyhound.com/en/discover-greyhound/our-bus-fleet
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 11:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We've yet to mention VAN HOOL in discussing highway coaches.......

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

http://www.vanhool.be/en/coaches
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 11:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here are some more noted conversion companies....

https://www.farberspecialty.com/custom-luxury-vehicles/history

https://www.marathoncoach.com/

https://libertycoach.com/

http://www.featherlitecoaches.com/

And as J P Morgan used to say....If you have to ask, "how much?", then....
you can't afford one.... Laughing
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 11:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

traildriver:

Ahhhh, what dreams are TRULY made of.....(!!) Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes

Have never seen any of these pictures before.....NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wink

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 12:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

SCENICRUISER + AREOCOACH = "PEACEMAKER"......... Shocked Shocked

Indeed NOT your average "ordinary" bus, to say the least.....'nuff said....... Shocked Shocked

https://twelvetribes.org/peacemaker-bus


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 12:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

More on the "PEACEMAKER" (EXCELLENT photos and article).........

http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/p/peacemaker/peacemaker.htm

(courtesy: coachbuilt)
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 7:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
"......the 'hounds' in the 'kennel'......" Wink

http://www.greyhound.com/en/discover-greyhound/our-bus-fleet


So even if you include those 34, 24 seat minibuses, the total is only 1,114?

A sad thing, indeed...when I worked for them, there were 6,000 buses in the fleet.
And Continental Trailways alone among the other NTBS companies had 2,300..
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 7:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
We've yet to mention VAN HOOL in discussing highway coaches.......

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

http://www.vanhool.be/en/coaches


Not mentioned in their history, was the late sixties minibus they exported, the VHC-1 'Intercontinental'.
It was marketed as a 'Carey-VanHool', as Carey Transportation was the US distributor for them, much in the manner as ABC Bus is nowadays.
I believe it seated around 28 passenger's or so...
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 7:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
SCENICRUISER + AREOCOACH = "PEACEMAKER"......... Shocked Shocked

Indeed NOT your average "ordinary" bus, to say the least.....'nuff said....... Shocked Shocked

https://twelvetribes.org/peacemaker-bus


When I worked at Penn Station,
I used to see that 2 axle model, parked in front of the GPO, across the street from Madison Square Garden, every time Jerry Garcia and the 'Grateful Dead' appeared. They were always parked in the same spot on Eighth Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets. They had a sign in the window that said: "First Aid"....
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 10:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

traildriver wrote:
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
SCENICRUISER + AREOCOACH = "PEACEMAKER"......... Shocked Shocked

Indeed NOT your average "ordinary" bus, to say the least.....'nuff said....... Shocked Shocked

https://twelvetribes.org/peacemaker-bus


When I worked at Penn Station,
I used to see that 2 axle model, parked in front of the GPO, across the street from Madison Square Garden, every time Jerry Garcia and the 'Grateful Dead' appeared. They were always parked in the same spot on Eighth Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets. They had a sign in the window that said: "First Aid"....


traildriver:

That was the last place I also saw this unique bus parked, quite a few years ago.

The only other time I saw the bus was parked on Battery Place (I was still working in Lower Manhattan at the time)

Naturally, I did not have a camera with me at the time!

The first time I saw this bus, I literally did a double-take.....I was like "WHAAAAATTTTT??" Rolling Eyes Shocked Shocked Shocked Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes

Just imagine that bus as a "SUPER-DUPER SCENICRUISER"!!!!! Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 10:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

traildriver wrote:
NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
"......the 'hounds' in the 'kennel'......" Wink

http://www.greyhound.com/en/discover-greyhound/our-bus-fleet


So even if you include those 34, 24 seat minibuses, the total is only 1,114?

A sad thing, indeed...when I worked for them, there were 6,000 buses in the fleet.
And Continental Trailways alone among the other NTBS companies had 2,300..


traildriver:

The amount of buses in the current fleet also had me scratching my head; it did not seem possible that the fleet has so drastically dwindled during the last few decades.

6,000 buses....NO WONDER Greyhound went EVERYWHERE, and could operate multiple sections!

Ahhh, the grim facts of reality........... Sad

"NYO"
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 10:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

traildriver:

Earlier, I mentioned traveling on DOMENICO's MCI's while on vacation (this was back in the early/mid 90's)

Any idea as to what companies those buses were sold to?

I still remember reading in the local papers at the time how the company just "closed up shop" literally overnight; vacation passengers found the Bayonne terminal locked and dark, and drivers could not get to their buses.

I never had a bad experience with DOMENICO; professional, personable drivers (with great senses of humor!), nice accomodations, and, of course, those big MCI's to whisk you from one spot to another.

I always thought that NJT might have purchased at least several, but I would guess that was a longshot.......

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When this classic photo was snapped, back in the early 80's, GMC's still dominated the network of ramps leading in and out of the PABT.

The lone COMMUNITY Prevost "CHAMPION" indeed is the "odd one out" in this nostalgic rush hour view.........

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3412

(courtesy: bus.nycsubway.org)
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

GREYHOUND bus features and virtual tour.......

http://www.greyhound.com/en/discover-greyhound/bus-features-and-virtual-tour
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 11, 2018 1:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
When this classic photo was snapped, back in the early 80's, GMC's still dominated the network of ramps leading in and out of the PABT.

The lone COMMUNITY Prevost "CHAMPION" indeed is the "odd one out" in this nostalgic rush hour view.........

http://bus.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3412

(courtesy: bus.nycsubway.org)


Look again...that's not a 'Champion', it's an MC-7 "Challenger"... Smile
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