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The Dixie Greyhound Lines (GL) began in 1925 in Memphis (on the Mississippi River and in the southwest corner of Tennessee) as the Smith Motor Coach Company, when James Frederick Smith, a former (and successful) truck salesman, received a used truck as a gift from his previous employer (John Fisher, a dealer, who owned the Memphis Motor Company).
An Eastern Greyhound Lines coach depicted at a stop in Conneaut, Ohio, c. 1930 Cast iron model "Northland Transportation Co." passenger bus, c. 1930. In 1914, Eric Wickman, a 27-year-old Swedish immigrant, was laid off from his job as a drill operator at a mine in Alice, Minnesota.
Athens Bus Station, 4020 Atlanta Hwy Athens, GA 30606 Augusta Bus Station, 1546 Broad St, Augusta, GA 30904 Columbus Bus Station, 818 Veterans Pkwy, Columbus, GA 31901
U.S. Highway 52 (US 52) is a 362-mile-long (583 km) United States Numbered Highway in the U.S. state of North Dakota, which travels from the Canada–United States border east to the Red River at Fargo. The highway connects the cities of Minot and Fargo and travels concurrent with Interstate 94 (I-94) between Jamestown and the Minnesota state line.
The 1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision was a head-on collision involving a double-decker Greyhound bus and a tractor-trailer on U.S. Route 11W in Grainger County, Tennessee, that occurred near the town of Bean Station on the morning of May 13, 1972.
In 1987 The Greyhound Corporation, the original umbrella Greyhound firm, which had become widely diversified far beyond transportation, sold its entire highway-coach operating business (its core bus business) to a new company named as the Greyhound Lines, Inc., GLI, based in Dallas, Texas. The buyer was a separate, independent, unrelated firm ...
The James River, that flows through Jamestown, feeds into the Atlantic Ocean, while the Sheyenne River, that flows through Valley City (36 miles (58 km) east of Jamestown), feeds into Hudson Bay. In Fargo, a well-known yet unnamed pedestrian bridge crosses over I-94; opened 48 years ago in 1976, in time for the US Bicentennial .
Jefferson Lines is a member of the American Bus Association, United Motorcoach Association, and National Tour Association. [9] The company is reported to have 75 buses in its fleet. [ 10 ] [ 1 ] Jefferson Lines was voted the best transportation company in Minnesota in 2021 in the Star Tribune ’s Minnesota's Best contest.