Tracking Down PD 4104's Still Around or on the road

Nel · January 09, 2014, 08:35:24 AM

I own 4104 4519, I know about the 2 previous owners , can you tell me the original history of 4519, Thanks, Nel

siberyd · January 09, 2014, 10:24:18 AM

Nel,

What is your city and state for the survivors list?

RJ has better records than.me so he will post it as soon as he read this.

Siberyd

Nel · January 09, 2014, 10:39:51 AM

I live in West Nyack , NY

A little too cold right now to work on it, but I have gutted the previous conversion from the 80's.( way too much shag carpeting for me) I would start with insulating the bus from the ceiling down, the insulation there now looks original as well as the ceiling panels and looks like it gets wet from condensation, would like to know the best material to use against the metal surfaces , by the way I hope I can get a lot of feed back from members willing to give advice as I go, I will try to post pictures too. Thanks again, Nel

siberyd · January 09, 2014, 11:20:52 AM

Sent Gordie's 4104 project to your email.

RJ · January 09, 2014, 04:05:25 PM

Quote from: Nel on January 09, 2014, 08:35:24 AM
I own 4104 4519, I know about the 2 previous owners , can you tell me the original history of 4519, Thanks, Nel

Nel -

PD4104-4519 was delivered new as fleet number P-7541 to Western Greyhound Lines, HQ'd in San Francisco, CA. It was part of a 75-bus order that was delivered in February and March of 1960. Based on it's sequence in the order (4478-4553), I'm going to guess that it actually was delivered in the early part of March, as it was #41 out of 75.

So you can legitimately tell folk that you own a "Jen-u-wine retired Greyhound bus."

FYI, if you haven't seen it in some of my other postings, WGL had one of the BEST maintenance shops in the Greyhound organization during the timeframe your coach was part of their fleet (1960-1970), so for at least the first ten years of it's life it was well taken care of.

FWIW & HTH. . .

Nel · January 10, 2014, 04:59:55 AM

Well Thanks RJ , I will keep that info in my bus files, 4519 will be in good hands on the East coast for a while and hopefully will visit the West coast someday, Thanks again RJ, Nel

siberyd · January 21, 2014, 04:21:02 PM

4104-2731 is alive and well in Fallon, NV. Currently for sale on Craig's list.

Siberyd

RJ · January 21, 2014, 05:13:25 PM

Quote from: siberyd on January 21, 2014, 04:21:02 PM
4104-2731 is alive and well in Fallon, NV.

Delivered new in July of 1957 as fleet number F-1226 to Florida Greyhound Lines, HQ'd in Jacksonville, FL.

FWIW & HTH. . .

siberyd · January 21, 2014, 05:33:41 PM

Thanks RJ.

Siberyd

siberyd · January 25, 2014, 12:26:23 PM

4104-1802 is alive and well as a converted coach fulltiming based out of Tennessee.

Siberyd

5B Steve · February 02, 2014, 06:39:51 AM

One for sale on E-BAY 4104 -1721

Steve 5B.....

siberyd · February 03, 2014, 12:20:36 PM

Thanks for the info.

Siberyd

siberyd · February 06, 2014, 10:15:45 PM

4104-2023 is still around. Unknown what condition it is in, the former owner said it is a part of a special project with details TBA. Will advise when I hear.

Siberyd

siberyd · February 11, 2014, 08:24:42 AM

Two more coaches:

4104-4218 conversion unknown location.

4104-4821 conversion Norman, OK

Siberyd

siberyd · February 18, 2014, 01:36:32 PM

Greetings all,

I have to apologize for the last total I posted. The numbers did not match in 2 places (my way of double checking). It appears that I have a mystery formula adding buses that don't exist in my database. I found an error on Line 2215.of 5100 lines (on my Excel spreadsheet). Somehow a formula was adding buses to my total. I guess it can happen, because it did. So I spent my weekend looking at every line and found the error.

The corrected numbers for the surviving coaches are:
(These do not include new numbers received over the weekend).

Conversions - 202
Noted on web - 33
Scrapped - 50
Still a bus/shell - 16

Total of 301

2 owners are converting their coaches to being a bus again.