History:  Bus build dates 1950 to Feb. 1960; In service dates 1950 to 1970s

Richmond Greyhound Lines (RGL) was actually started by the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac (RF&P) railroad.  The RF&P Transportation became the Richmond Greyhound Lines in 1930 with Greyhound owning 51% and RF&P owning 49%.  Shared partnerships* allowed Greyhound to share the risk in the event of a failure as well as allowing the railroad themselves to extend their service areas.  Shared ownership with Greyhound were common at that time.   Peak ridership on railroads peaked in the 1920s (except for WWII) due to the inroads of auto travel.  The ownership in a bus line was a strategy to allow a railroad to serve areas outside their railroad lines and yet provided a local feeder network to support their existing passenger railroad operations.  RGL operated from 1929 to 1960 when it was merged into the Eastern (formerly Capitol) Greyhound Lines.  RGL operated four C49-DM (m=manual transmission).  Those four were a minority among the GM and Yellows.  They were built on May 1957 and numbered as R2188-R2121.  Wheels of Time presents the complete RGL motor coach set here for your collection!

*Other examples of shared ownership:  The St. Louis Southwestern formed the Southwestern Greyhound; Southern Pacific formed the Pacific Greyhound; New Haven RR formed the New England Greyhound.  The exception was that Union Pacific Stages, later called Overland Greyhound, was a Greyhound without any participating interest from the Greyhound bus company.

FEATURES:

• Changeable, historically authentic destination signs
  full interior
  window glazing
  rubber tires
  authentically decorated
  multiple bus numbers