Bus Service along the N&W in VA and WV 1950s

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 Thanks for all the responses.  I'll be getting in line for the Trailways version of the PD4104.  It looks like a decent model from various photos.  

Dave Stephenson


    On Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 4:15:15 PM EDT, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  
 
  
Yes, Consolidated Bus Lines, whose motto stenciled on its buses was "Serving West Virginia's Billion Dollar Coal Fields," had runs between Bluefield and Roanoke (that I rode on a couple of occasions in the late '40s) and other runs west to places like Welch.  The owner was Jack Craft as I recall.  He made a large contribution to the Bluefield, WV, public library, which is known today as the Craft Memorial Library.  Incidentally, I was told that one of my mother's cousins was a driver for Consolidated until he was let go, reportedly because of a heavy foot on the accelerator.
 
Gordon Hamilton
 
 On 5/15/2019 11:49 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
  
 
 "Consolidated Bus Lines" served the coal fields during the '40's and maybe early '50's. It became part of Trailways in the '50's, and was know initially as "Consolidated Trailways." Greyhound also worked some routes out of Bluefield, mostly north and south. 
  Jim Nichols 
      On Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 6:24:02 AM CDT, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  
  
      Between Greyhound and Trailways, which company serviced communities along the N&W from Roanoke to Williamson in the 1950s?   I recall that Trailways covered the Blacksburg to Roanoke segment in 1959and into the early 1960s, but I never used buses any further west.  There's a new 1:87 PD-4104 available in both Greyhound and Trailways schemes and I'm trying to figure out which one to buy
  
  Thanks! 
  Dave Stephenson
  
   
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