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Posted by Eric B on Fri May 9 22:37:56 2008, in response to Re: Greyhound Buses, posted by Edwards! on Fri May 9 22:03:02 2008. At first, that was what I thought, but then, the way you worded it, it looked like you were on periodic pleasure trips: "ON TO Miami", etc. You were all over the place. I thought you had to stick with one route or service area based on a particular city.If I ever drove any kind of bus, it would have been Greyhound. It was fascinating riding. Also forgot to mention, made the trip to Atlanta (my cousin formerly in CT) in '87. They had just consolidated Greyhound and Trailways. Stopped in NC on the way. First time past VA. in the early 90's, I "expanded" into Florida, with Jacksonville one year, and then all the way to Key West the next year. In the last trip to VA (5 years ago), they seemed to be painting the Carolia Trailways to Greyhound. Saw a whole bunch parked at Salisbury with new Greyhound liveries, yet with 5 digit Trailways numbers. So have they eliminated Carolina Trailways? At least on that route, which no longer even goes into Carolina (the Wilmington, NC leg completely eliminated, and the later Greenville/Raleigh extension more recently cut into a separate route). During this whole time, I noticed the fleets with the 6000's MC9's in the East, and the 8000's concentrated in the West. But they had begun spreading to the east as well. In CA, I saw 9000's for the first time, and 6800 MC10's in their version of the "Lucky Streak" (To Vegas instead of Atlantic City). They also had low 8000's MC8's. Then you had low 5000's MC9's, appearing in the east, but I'm not sure where they came from. Perhaps the midwest or something. There were also high 5000's MC8's. And 4000's MC8's and 9's. There were also a few 1000's MC8's left (I remember 1147). What I didn't see anywhere were 3000's. (7000's were renumbered Trailways Eagle acquisitions). MC10 (which we knew then as; I did not hear that new model scheme they came up with until later) started over from 1000 and up, of course. The V6/V8 crossover occurred in the 4800's, 6600's and 8400's. The oldest V6 coaches still had the green tinted windows. But that was the end of that. Now, all the two strokes are gone, and it sounds pretty much like riding in a car. This also killed the whole experience for me. What's any kind of bus without a Detroit Two-stroke? Now, I've lost complete track of the fleets. I know some of the 45 ft coaches were the new 6000's, and most MC12's were high 1000's and 2000's. |
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