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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.
Scenic Hyway Tours #172 at Golden Gate – Photo courtesy of Malcom Allan
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.
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.
Scenic Hyway Tours #172 before it became PBM #172
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.
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Zodiac 2007