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Under the new ownership in 1987, led by Currey, Greyhound Lines later acquired the former Continental Trailways company, the largest member of the Trailways system, effectively eliminating a large portion of bus competition. Although Greyhound negotiated cooperative schedules with Carolina Coach
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encouraged smaller independent operators to form the NTBS to provide competition. Unlike Greyhound, which centralized ownership, Trailways member companies became a formidable competitor while staying an association of almost 100 separate companies. In the 1950s, Morgan W. Walker, Sr., of
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Company and Southeastern Trailways, two of the larger members of the Trailways system, many smaller carriers were effectively forced out of business. Greyhound later acquired Carolina and the intercity operations of Southeastern. Most of the survivors diversified into charters and tours.
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as the Interurban Transportation Company of Alexandria. During the 1950s and 1960s, consolidation among bus operators resulted in four of the five original Trailways members becoming part of a new company, Continental Trailways, which eventually operated the majority of Trailways routes.
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Regular route bus ridership in the United States had been declining steadily since World War II despite minor gains during the
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in the United States. It operates a network of approximately 70 independent bus companies. The company is headquartered in
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The predecessor to Trailways Transportation System was founded February 5, 1936, by
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for Holiday Inn frequently showed a Trailways bus stopping at a Holiday Inn hotel.
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of Holiday Inn until 1979, when Holiday Inn sold Trailways to private investor
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A Santa Fe bus used to transport workers to defense plants during
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scans Fullington Trailways buses carrying delegates into the
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The system originated with coast-to-coast service as the
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had grown so quickly in the 1920s and 1930s that the
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Index

National Trailways Bus System


Philadelphia
Fairfax, Virginia
United States
Canada
Germany
Netherlands
Intercity coach service
Charter bus service
Cooperative
www.trailways.com
public transport bus service
Fairfax, Virginia
Burlington Transportation Company
Santa Fe Trails Transportation Company
Missouri Pacific Stages
Frank Martz Coach Company

Greyhound Lines
Interstate Commerce Commission
Alexandria, Louisiana
World War II
Kemmons Wilson
Holiday Inn
subsidiary
Henry Lea Hillman Sr.
Pittsburgh
television commercials

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