Greyhound Lines facts for kids

Greyhound bus

Greyhound Lines (commonly called Greyhound) is a company in the United States that runs bus services between cities. It was founded in 1914. Its parent company is on the London Stock Exchange. The buses use air brakes and hold over 200 gallons of diesel.

Images for kids

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  An Eastern Greyhound Lines coach depicted at a stop in Conneaut, Ohio, c. 1930

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  1936 stock certificate #0000, specimen

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  Front view of a Greyhound Lines Super Coach in Maryland (1938 photo) (side view)

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  A Greyhound GMC PD-3751 Silversides in the 1950s livery

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  1954 GM Scenicruiser, designed by Raymond Loewy and manufactured exclusively for Greyhound

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  A GMC PD-4106, ready for boarding in Salem, Oregon for a trip north to Seattle on the then-new Interstate 5, in the fall of 1965

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  Greyhound bus ticket from August 1975

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  Greyhound MCI MC-12 Americruiser number 2119 in Fremont, Indiana headed for Cleveland, Ohio in August 2003

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  A Greyhound MCI G4500 in the early 2000s livery in Atlantic City, New Jersey

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  Inside a Greyhound bus station in Nashville, Tennessee, on the morning of May 24, 2010

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  Greyhound buses at the Portland, Oregon, station

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  Inside the Greyhound station in St. Louis, Missouri, on the afternoon of May 26, 2010. A bus in the background on its way to pick up passengers at another gate at this station is bound for Los Angeles, California

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  Interior of a 2009 Prevost X3-45 with leather seats

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  Remains of a crashed Greyhound bus after the 1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision.