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Our buses generate a lot of excitement when people see them. They get even more excited when they find out that some of our buses are Movie Stars!
Please contact us if you are interested in using any of our buses for your film or TV project. All of our buses run-and-drive, and we love to take them out on adventures.
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Our Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) #2738 has been used in many different films and TV commercials.
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 01/11/2024 – 2738 at the former Oakland Amtrak station on 16th Street |
Much of this film shoot was done in the PBM yard on 09/18/22.
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Santa Cruz Transit Company #2 was used in the filing of the movie Kintsukuroi |
 Bus #2 was used in the filming of the movie Kintsukuroi. |
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Glacier National Park Transportation #77 was used in the filing of the movie Kintsukuroi | 
  Aaron Essenmacher wearing the top half of a Greyhound driver’s uniform checking the oil in Bus 2. Photo taken by the film crew. |
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Pacific Greyhound Lines #1826 was used in the filing of the movie Kintsukuroi |
 1826 with luggage doors open ready to receive 1940’s luggage. Felicia Gaston photo.  Kintsukuroi Director Kerwin Berk  Tom Shafer in 1826’s driver’s seat.  Selfie of Jim Fairchild in his Greyhound uniform in 1826 |
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On Sunday, July 30th, there was a film shoot at Shinn yard with Buses #2 – Santa Cruz Transit Company, #77 – Glacier National Park Transportation, and #128 – Niles Coach Lines. Tom Baker, Aaron Essenmacher, John and Eva Fenlon, and Tom Shafer positioned the buses for the film crew. |
 #2 – Santa Cruz Transit Company #77 – Glacier National Park Transportation  #128 – Niles Coach Lines |
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On Sunday, July 31st, member Matt Kaufman drove Pacific Greyhound Lines #1826 , our 1945 GM PD-3302, to a film shoot in Morgan Hill for the short film “Nisei”. That’s Matt in the Greyhound driver’s uniform. Photos from Matt Kaufman collection. |
 1826 on location of Nisei filming  Matt Kaufman in the drivers seat of 1826 for the Nisei filming |
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Key Systems 308 was used for the filming of the movie “Oppenheimer” in Sierra Madre, CA in late April. |
 Pacific Bus Museum Vice-President, Tom Shafer, is in the driver’s seat for the filming of the movie “Oppenheimer”. |
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Glacier National Park Transportation #77 was used in the May 22nd filming of the movie is Happy Goat starring Nina Jordon. These scenes were filmed in the PBM yard. |
 In this scene was Nina getting into a bus headed for California from Seattle. She is disgusted with being cooped up in the rainy, foggy weather bound Northwest. In California she meets a goat farmer in Half Moon Bay and……..! |
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On May 10th member Matt Kaufman drove #3270 – San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) to San Francisco for a movie shoot. |
 #3270 – San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) |
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On Saturday, August 22nd, #4 – Los Gatos High School and #9049 – Yosemite Community College were used in a film shoot at the yard. Lorne Thompson moved the buses around for the film crew. The crew had been to the yard on August 15th to make sure the location would work for them. |
 #4 – Los Gatos High School  #9049 – Yosemite Community College |
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Australian automotive TV show, Classic Restos visited the PBM’s museum recently to film a future episode for the show featuring the PBM’s buses. Mark Fletcher, host and producer of the show and Mark Behr sponsor of the show arrived on Tuesday, October 25 to do the filming. The finished episode is on YouTube.
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 Mark Behr (left) and Mark Fletcher (right) during the filming of Classic Restos at the PBM bus barn in Fremont. |
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#128 – Niles Coach Lines was used in the filming of the movie, “Jersey Boys” |
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Our #4 1952 Crown school bus was featured in this Smucker’s commercial: Show & Tell YouTube Video |  |
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On Tuesday, September 14, 2010 PBM members Charles Williams, Homer Beaudoin and Ron Medaglia drove Niles Coach Lines bus 517, #77 – Glacier National Park Transportation and #246 – Peerless Stages to the newly completed Niles Town Plaza in Niles, CA not far from the PBM’s yard in Fremont where they were staged as backdrops for the filming of the program, which aired on Saturday, September 18, 2010 on a local Fox TV, KTVU Channel 2. During the filming sports commentators Joe Fonzi and Kim Yonenaka made several “plugs” for the PBM including our need for a permanent home and the Niles vintage bus operation. The filming ended with both commentators boarding 246 as it drove away from the plaza area. |
 246, 7 and 517 staged as backdrops at the Niles Town Plaza |
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The PBM’s GM TDH 4512, Niles Coach Lines #128 was used to film a segment on Niles for the local CBS Television Network affiliate. The filming took place on Wednesday, November 4, 2009. 128 was driven by member Dave Hughes. KPIX Channel 5 did the filming for a local TV show that will feature special places in the SF bay area. |
 Niles Coach Lines #128 |
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Milk, a motion picture about the life of San Francisco city Supervisor Harvey Milk, was filmed in San Francisco recently. he movie set in San Francisco in the 1970s called for 70’s era SF Municipal Railway bus and PBM’s GM T8H5305, #3270 – San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) was used for filming scenes for the movie on four dates in February and March. PBM member Joe Hunter of Green Acres Picture Vehicles handled arrangements for the shoot with 3270. |
 PBM’s GM T8H5305, #3270 |
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Our #4 1952 Crown school bus was featured in the 2007 Zodiac movie with Jake Gyllenhaal. |
 Our Crown #4 standing by on the set of the 2007 Zodiac movie with Jake Gyllenhaal. |
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Our #172 – Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno Stage Lines 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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PBM bus #1826’s unanticipated 2-month odyssey is finally over when The Valley of Light movie shoot finally finished filming on December 2, 2005 in Coloma, CA. The setting for the movie for TV’s Hallmark channel is rural West Virginia at the end of WW II. After being transported from Fremont to the Portland area for filming in early October and again in early November filming was moved to Coloma, CA in the foothills of the Sierras because of unexpected early rains in the Portland, Oregon area. Each time the #1945 was moved it was aboard a tractor and Landoll trailer owned by member Ted Campbell. Ted also doubled as the driver of the #1945 for all the filming. |
 Missouri Pacific Stages #821 restored as a Pacific Greyhound Lines |
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On Friday, September 17, PBM Treasurer Tim Swank took the RTD Flxible #7103 from Fremont to Oakland near the old Amtrak station for a film shoot with Deus Productions. PBM President Ron Medaglia and Member-At-Large David Chen showed up to watch the proceedings. |
 7103 in Oakland near the old Amtrak station for the shoot |
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Our General Motors PD 4106 #172 was used in Marlboro TV and Print advertising in 1993. |
 Scenic Hyway Tours #172 before it became PBM #172 |
East Bay Motor Coach Lines (Key System) acquired 11 model 15 “baby” Twins starting in January 1931.
The PBM acquired the #308 from the estate of the late Jerry Graham in 1996.
#308 was included in the filming of the movie “Oppenheimer”.
3-Speed Manual, East Bay Motor Coach, Hercules, Key System, Transit, Twin Coach
Bus #2738 was part of an order of 65 30-foot Gillig Phantoms for AC Transit delivered in 1990.
#2738 was donated to the Pacific Bus Museum in June 2011.
4-Speed Automatic, Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit), Automatic, Benicia Transit, Gillig, Transit
#7103 became one of the first buses of the newly formed Pacific Bus Museum in 1989 when it was split off from the West Coast Motor Coach Museum.
2-Speed Automatic, Automatic, Cummins, Detroit Diesel, Flxible, Perkins, Southern California RTD (SCRTD), Spicer, Transit, West Coast Motor Coach Museum
This General Motors PD-4106 was delivered new to Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno (LTR) Stage Line in 1964.
The bus was donated to the PBM in 1996 along with the five other buses of Richard Twining’s historical bus collection.
4-Speed Manual, General Motors, General Motors, GM Truck & Coach Division, Intercity Coach, Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno (LTR) Stage Line, Office of Defense Transportation, Oregon Coachways
Three General Motors TDM-4512’s (#244-246) were delivered to Peerless Stages, Inc. of Oakland, CA in April 1955.
In 1996 Richard donated #246 along with the five other buses in his historic bus collection to the Pacific Bus Museum.
4-Speed Manual, General Motors, General Motors, GM Truck & Coach Division, Intercity Coach, Peerless Stages, West Coast Motor Coach Museum
This Flxible Visicoach was one of four (#48-51) delivered new in 1955 to the Utah Parks Company as #50.
The bus was donated to the PBM in 1996 along with the five other buses of Richard Twining’s historical bus collection.
Year Built: 1955
Manufacturer: The Flxible Company, Loudonville, Ohio
Model: 218FA1-55-29IC Visicoach
Serial#: 30839
Original Owner: Utah Parks Co. #50
5-Speed Manual, Fageol, Flxible, Glacier Transport Company, Hercules, Specialty, Union Pacific Railroad, Utah Parks Company
This Crown A -779 -11 Supercoach was built in 1952 for Los Gatos High School in Los Gatos, CA.
Pacific Bus Museum Member, Tom Shafer, bought the bus and donated it to the Pacific Bus Museum in 2003.
This bus was featured in a 2012 Smucker’s TV commercial as wells as the 2007 Zodiac movie with Jake Gyllenhaal.
5-Speed Manual, Crown Coach, Cummins, Fuller, Hall-Scott, Los Gatos High School, School Bus, St. Francis High School
This GM PD 3302 coach was delivered to Missouri Pacific Stages in 1945 as #821.
The bus was donated to the PBM in 1996 along with the five other buses of Richard Twining’s historical bus collection.
4-Speed Manual, GM Truck & Coach Division, Missouri Pacific Stages, Office of Defense Transportation, Pacific Greyhound Lines, Parlor, Western Greyhound Lines
In 2017 PBM Member, Ron Medaglia, wrote this article on the history of the Pacific Bus Museum, entitled “The Pacific Bus Museum From Hobby to Formal Museum”, for the National Bus Trader magazine.
American Stage Tours, General Motors, GM Truck & Coach Division, Niles Canyon Railway, Niles Coach Lines, Royal Coach Tours, Scenic Hyway Tours, Twin Coach, UC Davis Transit System, Union Pacific Railroad, Unitrans UC Davis, West Coast Motor Coach Museum
