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37974 Shinn St, Fremont, CA 94536 (No postal mail!)
37974 Shinn St, Fremont, CA 94536 (No postal mail!)
Please send all postal mail to our PO BOX!
P.O. Box 601105 Sacramento, CA 95860-1105
Please send all postal mail to our PO BOX!
P.O. Box 601105 Sacramento, CA 95860-1105
This General Motors PD-4106 was delivered new to Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno (LTR) Stage Line in 1964. An intercity carrier, LTR’s main route extended from Reno through Las Vegas to Phoenix, AZ. The LTR fleet included 80 new and used PD-4106s.
In the 1960s LTR operated a US government contract using as many as 70 coaches daily transporting workers between Las Vegas and the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles north at Mercury, NV. The contract required no coach to be older than 5 years old and #172 was part of a group of eight coaches (#165-172) purchased for LTR’s commitment of new coaches for the contract that year.
Scenic Hyway Tours #172 before it became PBM #172
In the early 1970s #172 was sold to Oregon Coachways in Eugene, Oregon. In need of a 35-foot bus for special tour work, Richard Twining, owner of Scenic Hyway Tours in San Francisco, acquired #172 in 1986.
The first modern intercity bus in the PBM’s museum fleet was Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno Stage Line’s #172. The bus was donated to the PBM in 1996 along with the five other buses of Richard Twining’s historical bus collection.
This is a truly modern intercity bus with comfort features such as a restroom and air-conditioning.
Our General Motors PD 4106 was “dressed up” (livery wrap) to look like a Greyhound for the 2007 Zodiac movie with Jake Gyllenhaal.
As a volunteer orginization, we are always looking for as much help as we can get. If you've got skills and time, and want to get your hands dirty, consider becoming a member.
If you don't want to contribute "hands-on", financial donations for the restoration of bus #172 are also needed at this time to complete this remaining work. All donations for bus #172 will be placed in a Special Fund account exclusively for the restoration and maintenance of bus #172. Please make a donation today to continue the restoration of bus #172!
Make a "Pacific Bus Museum" donation to the Special Funds account for for bus #172.
The Pacific Bus Museum is a non-profit, tax-exempt, volunteer organization registered in the state of California. We were granted tax-exempt status as a non-profit corporation by the IRS under 501 (c) 3 of the Internal Revenue Code Tax ID # 1683391. Donations to the Pacific Bus Museum are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Zodiac 2007