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Here's another interesting article on the Dixie Terminal; this one features a few historic photos of the long ago days when it was a bustling transit hub.......

https://nkytribune.com/2016/07/our-rich-history-1960s-dixie-terminal-cincinnati-and-fond-memories-of-taking-green-line-downtown/

["GMC"]

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In comparison to the Dixie Terminal, here we have a rare view of the PS Terminal at Newark, nearing completion in 1916.

(like the Dixie Terminal, the PS Terminal was also a "loop" facility)

When it opened, the massive terminal served only streetcars; by the later 1920s, buses also began serving the terminal.

After 1938, only buses and ASVs served the facility.

The dual-powered ASVs were replaced with diesel buses in 1948; buses continued to use the upper level of the Terminal until the early 1970s, using the elevated approaches (the lower level was closed sometime in the late 1960s)..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?117034

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

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The now-demolished Transbay Terminal in San Francisco was also an elevated "loop" terminal.

This busy terminal was built (opened 1939) to serve the electric interurban trains of the Key System's then-new Bridge Railway, as well as the train of the IER and SN.

After 1941, only the Key's orange trains remained; these trains themselves were replaced by buses in 1958.

GREYHOUND also once called here.........

https://collection.sfomuseum.org/objects/1511946159

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Transbay_Terminal

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A few memories..........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?16147

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156810

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?156812

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

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["8 OAHLAND"]

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An interesting page with an excellent collection of historic photos (Transbay Terminal)..........

https://www.foundsf.org/Transbay_Terminal

["A"]

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Here is the former Transbay Terminal's INSANELY BIZARRE replacement......'no further comment (note hideous construction photo from 2017).........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce_Transit_Center

["MUNI"]

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Another interesting article, featuring several historic photos........

https://www.sfmta.com/blog/tales-old-transbay-terminal

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"Run through" terminals (with their pros and cons) were an "alternate" to "loop" terminals.

In this classic c.1970s scene (no location given) we see a group of several sparkling EAGLES awaiting departure time (this photo makes me think of a TRAILWAYS museum!

Note old and new paint schemes on display, here........

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/544161567479810928/

["MEMPHIS"]

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Curbside..................

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/429390145715924518/

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Trailways depot at Fort Worth, c.1960s.........

https://www.cardcow.com/357603/fort-worth-continental-trailways-bus-station/

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"CONTINENTAL TRAILWAYS" station, Pueblo, c. early/mid-1960s............

https://www.cardcow.com/380107/pueblo-colorado-continental-trailways-bus-terminal/

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The historic TRAILWAYS depot at Petersburg (Virginia).........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersburg_Trailways_Bus_Station

['TRAILWAYS BUS STATION"]

[traildriver]

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traildriver:

Always, greatly appreciate the historical infi!

From the late Jim Lehrer's "A BUS OF MY OWN"............

:......Santa Fe, Dad's former employer, a principal in the NATIONAL TRAILWAYS system, ran hundreds of big red-and-cream buses on routes from Chicago to Los Angeles, with feeder lines off in all directions, through the Midwest and the Southwest............"

"........I also worked as a CONTINENTAL TRAILWAYS ticket agent, while I was going to Victoria College,,,,,,"

".....I loved working at that bus depot; I loved being the guy who breathed into the PA microphone, annoincing departure times as well as the dozens of stops which would be made along the line....."

"......I also loved doing tickets. Long trips meant long tickets, with a separate coupon for each TRAILWAYS or any other company traveled on....."

".....we used rubber stamps for the names of the towns......."

".....Dad had gone on to work for a small bus company in southeastern Kansas called KANSAS TRAILS, and then for an old SANTA FE friend who ran another bus company, BEAUMONT-PORT ARTHUR TRAILWAYS......."

"......he hired Dad to run his company, and to manage the depot at Beaumont....."

".....Dad later took a job as CONTINENTAL TRAILWAYS's city solicitor in San Antonio. GREYHOUND then dominated the route , from Beaumont to San Antonio......."

"NYO"

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From the same book............

".....in Newton, Kansas, I went to a cab stand in what had once been a huge depot for SANTA FE trains and buses; I was told that TRANS-STATE TRAILWAYS used to stop at what was now the cab stand....."

".....TRANS STATE had gone bankrupt, after attempting to replace some of the Kansas routes abandoned by TRAILWAYS and GREYHOUND in the late 1970s and 80s........"

"......at an old Rexall in Clifton, Texas, I was fortunate enough to nab a rare, one-of-a-kind WACO-CISCO COACHES sign, as well as a newer one for CENTRAL TEXAS BUS LINES......."

'......in Hugo, Oklahoma, I came across a wrecking crew demolishing what had once been the headquarters and depot of the defunct JORDAN BUS COMPANY. I left carrying books of old tickets and a 'TO BUSES' sign.........."

"NYO"

["TRAVEL BY BUS"]