Visit us the 1st & 3rd Saturday of every month 10am-2pm
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

Chance T. Von B.

Pages on this site about Chance T. Von B.

PBM – The Paddle: July/Aug 2024

Line 33, Run 4

  • PBM Acquires 1924 Fageol Safety Coach From Museum Of Bus Transportation
  • Work Day Reports
  • 1826 At Spirit Of ‘45 In San Jose On 08/10/24
  • Greyhound Retirees Club Makes Large Donation
  • PBM Featured In Live Virtual Tour
  • 08/18/24 Annual Open House
  • Highway Products #554 –an enigma by Frank R. Scheer
  • Southwestern Greyhound Lines by Dr. D.B. “Doc” Rushing

Amador Stage Lines, American Stage Tours, Fageol, Flxible, Gillig, Hall-Scott, Hercules, Motor Coach Industries (MCI), Pacific Electric, Prevost, Santa Clara County Valley Transit Authority (VTA), Southwestern Greyhound Lines, Transportation Manufacturing Company (TMC), Wheels in Livermore


PBM – The Paddle: May/June 2024

Line 33, Run 3

  • President’s Message by Lorne Thompson
  • Work Day Reports
  • PBM On Bay Area Wonders
  • 128 And 3270 At Western Railway Museum
  • Eli Bail Donates Large Amount Of Collectables To PBM
  • 2024 PBM Election Results
  • Bus 1 Sold To Member Ryan Hahn
  • Annual PBM Open House On 08/18/24
  • Southwestern Greyhound Lines by Dr. D.B. “Doc” Rushing

Blue Bird, Gillig, Los Angeles Transit Lines (LATL), Motor Coach Industries (MCI), Prevost, Torrance Municipal Bus Lines, Twin Coach, Western Railway Museum


PBM – The Paddle: March/April 2024

Line 33, Run 2

  • Prevost Car Celebrates Its 100th Anniversary At Their Mira Loma CA Facility On March 14th
  • Former PBM Member Dave Longa Passes Away
  • Work Day Reports: 03/16/24, 04/06/24 & 04/20/24
  • Mike Demeter Passes Away
  • Scenicruiser Mounted On Roof Of Nashville Hotel
  • Crown Archives Elicits Goodall’s Charter Bus Story By Tom Baker
  • Steam Powered Buses In CA In The Early 70’s
  • WWII Johnson Hand-Cranked Farebox For Sale
  • Members Needed To Exercise Our Buses

Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit), Crown Coach, Fageol, Goodall's Charter Bus Service, Hemphill Brothers Coach Company, Museum of Bus Transportation, Peninsula Charter Lines, Prevost, Reo, San Francisco SF MUNI, Southern California RTD (SCRTD)


PBM – The Paddle: January/February 2024

Line 33, Run 1

  • Cover Photo: Southern Pacific Railroad at Mission Bay yard
  • PBM Has Two New Items For Sale Soon – a T-shirt of our 1947 Silversides and a license plate frame
  • President’s Message by Lorne Thompson
  • Former PBM Member Norm Spaulding Passes Away
  • The 2024 PBM Election coming in early June
  • 01/06/24 Work Day Report
  • 01/20/24 Work Day Report
  • PBM Member Vickie Cole Passes Away Unexpectedly
  • Back Issues Of The Paddle Donated
  • 2738 In Movie Shoot In Vallejo On 01/28/24
  • 1826 On Display In San Rafael On 1/31 & 2/1
  • 02/03/24 Work Day Report
  • 02/17/24 Work Day Report
  • Where “The Paddle” Name Came From?
  • Royal Coach Tours Sold To TCS
  • PBM Member William D. Bourne Passes Away At 92
  • Greyhound bus stops are valuable assets. Here’s who’s cashing in on them By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN
  • Southwestern Greyhound Lines Dr. D.B. “Doc” Rushing

American Stage Tours, Amtravel, Atlanta Metropolitan Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), Continental Trailways, Eastern Greyhound Lines, Eastshore Lines, General Motors, Gillig, Golden Gate Transit, Greyhound, Key System, Marmon-Herrington, Megabus, Motor Coach Industries (MCI), Pacific Coachways (Garden Grove CA), Prevost, Royal Coach Tours, Sacramento Regional Transit, Sacramento Transit Authority (Sacramento TA), Saint Louis Car Company, Santa Clara County Valley Transit Authority (VTA), Transportation Charter Services (TCS) Orange CA, Transportation Manufacturing Company (TMC), Western Greyhound Lines


PBM – The Paddle: September/October 2023

Line 32, Run 5

New PBM Member, Tom Baker, created a new PBM Banner to hang on the building… Unfortunately, he didn’t learn that the 1991 date was a misnomer until after the banner was printed. The PBM was founded in 1989.

  • LA’s first bus line got rolling 100 years ago today: here’s to a century of innovation and grit
  • President’s Message by Lorne Thompson
  • PBM Calendar
  • ODT Bus1826 received some overdue wiring repairs by PBM Member John Fenlon
  • Upcoming events
  • More Parts Donated By Royal Coach Tours
  • Public Transit Supporters Visit PBM On 09/09/23
  • Donated Forklift Delivered To PBM On 09/21/23 by Darren and Mike from Shasta College
  • Bus 3270 At Muni Roadeo At The Cow Palace On 10/28
  • Upcoming Annual Holiday Gathering And Membership Meeting
  • PBM Shirts for Sale

Gillig, Royal Coach Tours, Shasta College


PBM – The Paddle: May/June 2023

Line 32, Run 3

  • Cover Photo: Greyhound Lines system map showing connections to other carriers, circa 1937-1939, per Eli Bail.
  • Now an underground rave venue, Oakland’s abandoned Greyhound station was once ‘magnificent’
  • 05/06/23 Work Day Report
  • 05/20/23 Work Day Report
  • License Plate Club Has Meet At PBM
  • 128 And 3270 At Western Railway Museum
  • 128 At SamTrans Roadeo
  • 06/03/23 Work Day Report
  • 06/05/23 Visit By Australians
  • PBM At American Truck Historical Society’s National Convention and Truck Show In Reno
  • 06/17/23 Work Day Report

Greyhound, SamTrans, Western Railway Museum


PBM – The Paddle: January/February 2023

Line 32, Run 1

  • President’s Message by Lorne Thompson
  • PBM Calendar
  • 2738 Film Shoot In San Rafael
  • 2738’s Front Starting Problem Corrected
  • 842 Gets A Newer Set Of Batteries
  • PBM Gets A Sump Pump
  • 3 And 246 At License Plate Meet In Niles
  • 2023 Open House Date Announced
  • The Pacific Bus Museum’s Historic Greyhound Silversides Story and pictures by Ron Medaglia
  • Peter Newgard of the Bus History Association seeks Information Sought On Rare Bus In BC

Amtrak, Greyhound, Hall-Scott, Kenworth, Metropolitan Bus Lines (Seattle), Pacific Greyhound Lines, Southern Pacific, Southern Pacific Railroad, Western Greyhound Lines


PBM – The Paddle: November/December 2022

Line 31, Run 6

  • President’s Message by Lorne Thompson
  • PBM Calendar
  • 12/04/22 Bus 4 In Los Gatos Christmas/Holiday Parade
  • 12/10/22 Holiday Gathering In San Leandro
  • 9E, 2738, HPO In Movle Shoot
  • Donation Drive For 1947 Greyhound Lines Silversides
  • GM PD-4501 Scenicrulser Question (contnued)

Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit), Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Detroit Diesel, Kansas City Area Transportation Authority, Marmon-Herrington, Southern California RTD (SCRTD), Southern Pacific, Spicer


PBM – The Paddle: September/October 2022

Line 31, Run 5

  • Cover Photo: Pacific Greyhound Lines Oakland Will bus built after consolidation at the Pioneer Stage plant in 1930 at 1919 Markey Street, Oakland.
  • President’s Message by Lorne Thompson
  • PBM Calendar
  • Tree Branches In New Parcel Trimmed on 09/01/22
  • 2103 And 3270 At Western Rallway Museum 9/3 & 9/4
  • 09/18/22 Movie Shoot At PBM Yard By Tom Shafer
  • Another Busy Period For 1828… Marin Civic Center in San Rafael… Vallecito Elementary School.
  • Phelan Ride And Drive Report By Tom Shafer
  • 3270 At Muni’s Bus Roadeo On 10/29/22
  • Donation Drive To Acquire Greyhound Silversides
  • Two Short Bus Stories… 
  • General Motors PD-4501 Scenicruiser Question… answers from Paul Von Fange’s book

Crown Coach, Fageol, Gillig, International Harvester, Pacific Greyhound Lines, Studebaker, Western Railway Museum, White Motors


Paddle Archives mentioning Chance T. Von B.

Website Design and Development by Pro Web Marketing