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Remains of a crashed Greyhound bus after the 1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision. Below is a list of major incidents and collisions on Greyhound buses and buses of subsidiaries in the United States. August 4, 1952: in Greyhound's most deadly collision, two Greyhound buses collided head-on with each other along U.S. Route 81 near Waco, Texas ...
The Greyhound Bus Museum is located in ... The museum houses a collection of artifacts and vehicles that chronicle the history of the Greyhound Lines bus company ...
The GMC PD-4501 Scenicruiser, manufactured by General Motors (GM) for Greyhound Lines, Inc., was a three-axle monocoque two-level coach that Greyhound used from July 1954 into the mid-1970s. 1001 were made between 1954 and 1956.
The GX-2 (Greyhound Experimental #2 – The Scenicruiser) was a prototype bus built for Greyhound that was eventually developed into the Scenicruiser.It began in mid-1948 as a 35-foot design, but, in part to accommodate more passengers, Greyhouse President Orville Caesar directed his engineering department to add five feet in length to the upper deck of a PD-3751 obtained from GM. [1]
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.
About mid-1945, if not sooner, Consolidated Vultee abandoned the project; it is not known what General Motors did with their activity. Greyhound began building their own version of GX-1 at the Greyhound Motors & Supply Company in Chicago. A year later, in August 1946, the double-decker bus was “just around the corner,” according to one article.
For Greyhound Lines, the largest operator of intercity bus service, Yellow Coach developed distinctive streamlined models which introduced a high floor, underfloor luggage storage, a flat front, air conditioning, and a diesel engine, supplying more than 1,250 buses during Greyhounds' years of fastest growth.
These stations were served by Greyhound Canada, the Canadian subsidiary of Greyhound Lines, which ceased operations on May 13, 2021. Ajax Plaza Bus Terminal , Ajax, Ontario Barrie Bus Terminal , Barrie, Ontario