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

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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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