Great timetable! I didn't know Intermountain had that big of a network! Did they seriously run their own coaches all the way south to Phoenix and west to San Frnacisco? Those times are in italics, which I think means they're run by an affliated company. Today it seems that Salt Lake Express runs a very similar newtork, albiet smaller.
It's very surprisng to see Alaskan Coachways running daily schedules Whitehorse-Fairbanks and three times daily Edmonton-Fort St. John.
Any pictures of Intermountain or Coachways? Can't find any pics.
There is a GL after the italics city - what do you think that stands for?
Ah, but that would mean all service Idaho Falls-Las Vegas would be operated by Greyhound Lines. There's a through service Butte-Salt Lake City. So it still dosen't make sense. Maybe it's the rare case of a Greyhound driver on an Intermountain bus.
Greyhound and Intermountain did indeed pool equipment on those routes. At the time I rode, they were both running GM PD4107's on it. And further south, Greyhound also pooled with Sun Valley on the Salt Lake City-Las Vegas-Phoenix route. They also pooled with another defunct carrier, LVT--Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno Stageline on the Seattle-Reno-Las Vegas-Phoenix route.
Back in the glory days of GL, they were involved with pools with other carriers on routes from coast to coast, and border to border and beyond....
Greyhound sure pooled with a lot of companies back then. I first found LVTR and Sun Valley on the Nevada/Utah page of this site:
http://www.chicagorailfan.com/greyhite.html. Never thought that Sun Valley ran all the way up to SLC. Apparently there was also an old Ely-Tonopah Stage that ran the crazy US Route 6 Ely-Bishop!
By "pooled service", do you mean just driver pools or equipment pools as well. I assume it's the latter. It lloks like the PD-4107 was a popular coach back then on these less-popular routes. Do you know what buses they ran on the LVTR pool?
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A "pool", is an equipment pool, with a coach going from one companies route onto another, to provide a thru, no-change service for passengers. When companies pool, they will each allocate equipment to the pool, based on prorated proportion of total miles operated. When carrier's operate more than one such route, they compute the total of all pooled routes to simplify allocations.
The drivers normally change where the routes meet, but there are several different types of exceptions to this, mainly for operational convenience. But the drivers end up at years end, with the correct prorated miles, if operating over each other's territory/
When Greyhound pooled with a smaller carrier, Greyhound required the carrier to provide a vehicle comparable to what Greyhound used at the time. This usually meant a General Motors coach, preferably a fairly late model, equiped with A/C, power steering, restroom's, etc. In additon, Greyhound also required some of the carriers to use a GL similar blue and white paint scheme, with a Greyhound dog logo, on the other carrier's buses dedicated to the pool. In later years, Greyhound relaxed on that part of the requirement.
Sun Valley Bus Lines, (not related to Idaho carrier Sun Valley Stages), ran from Las Vegas south to Phoenix via Needles.
LVT ran from Reno to Las Vegas, and south to Phoenix via Kingman. Both pooled with Greyhound, and each other.......
