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Brand/Publisher: Trailways, Coast-to-Coast bus system, U.S.A.; timetable production credit printed as Russell\'s Guides, Printed in U.S.A.
Item: Vintage 1966 South, Southwest, and New England bus time tables booklet for Trailways Coast-to-Coast service, effective September 7, 1966 and issued for interstate coach routes linking New England, New York, the Mid-Atlantic, the South, and the Southwest.
Front cover design features a red and white layout with bold TRAILWAYS Coast-to-Coast BUS TIME TABLES heading above an oval illustration of reclining passengers viewing a Trailways coach against a mountainous highway scene, over a large South Southwest and New England destination panel.
Lower front panel advertises New Restroom Equipped Fleet operating via turnpikes or trunk highways and gives New York reservations information for the Trailways Sales Plaza at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, 41st and 8th Avenue, with LOngacre 4-8320 and LOngacre 4-8484 telephone numbers and a small bus and terminal vignette.
Interior pages present dense black-and-white schedule tables headed TRAILWAYS THRU ROUTE SERVICE, including the \"Atlantic Seaboard Route\" New York - Raleigh - Florida table, \"The Dixieland Route\" from New England through Norfolk, Raleigh, and Montgomery to Dallas, and \"The Rebel Route\" from New York via Atlanta to New Orleans and Houston.
Additional tables cover \"The President Route\" from New York to Roanoke, Knoxville, and Memphis, as well as New England - New York - Asheville, New England - New York - Roanoke - West Virginia, New England - New York - Norfolk - Wilmington, N.C., New York - Philadelphia to Eastern North Carolina, and earlier segments such as Schenectady - Albany, New York - Baltimore - Silver Spring - Washington, and Portland - Boston.
Format and appearance: Tall narrow softcover timetable booklet printed in black on off-white stock with a red, black, and white illustrated cover, organizing Trailways intercity bus schedules, route names, and intermediate stops for South, Southwest, and New England service as of late 1966.
Collectibility: Representative example of mid-1960s Trailways and Port Authority transportation ephemera, of interest to collectors of bus time tables, New York and East Coast transit history, and American highway and coach travel memorabilia.
