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Re: Greyhound livery history questions |
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Posted by caseyjim on Sun Jun 15 07:32:14 2008, in response to Re: Greyhound livery history questions, posted by AMoreira81 on Fri Jun 13 19:46:54 2008. As for the livery that these buses came in, the striped red/white/blue scheme, that dates back to the 1970s when Greyhound made their first change in paint schemes since the 1940s, since when their buses were a basic blue,white and silver from that time until the early 1970s on buses delivered to Greyhound. The MC8 was the first bus to be delivered new in the red/white/blue scheme, while the MC7s and other buses got painted into it as they were shopped for major work. Greyhound buses from the PD4104 Highway Traveler and 4501 Scenicruiser to the 4107 all were originally delivered in the basic blue,white and silver scheme. Even some of the Scenics got the red/white/blue scheme in their final years of Greyhound service. As each new model entered Greyhound service, older buses were taken out of service and many sold to other operators including some upstarts. In WNY, for example, a number of ex Greyhound 4104s found their way to Grand Island Transit Corp. and sister company, Lockport Bus Lines. Generally these buses needed work before being put into service by their new owners,especially since at that time, just about any bus that Greyhound is known to have operated was pretty well worn out by the time Greyhound got through with it. Gray Line of Hawaii used the red/white/blue Greyhound like scheme on their buses, both MC7s and 4905s. When I went to Honolulu in 1979 these buses were painted much like Greyhound's were. |
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