Destination: Holiday Inn

Trailways Transportation System was founded by Burlington Transportation Company, Santa Fe Trails Transportation Company, Missouri Pacific Stages, Safeway Lines, Inc., and Frank Martz Coach Company in 1936. In competition to Greyhound Lines, the system provided coast-to-coast service as the National Trailways Bus System. During the 1950s and 1960s, four of the five original Trailways members consolidated to become part of a new company, Continental Trailways, which eventually operated the majority of Trailways routes. Continental Trailways was acquired in 1968 by Holiday Inn. The lodging chain's advertisements often featured a Trailways coach at the entrance. Trailways remained a subsidiary of Holiday Inn until 1979, when they sold Trailways to a private investor, Henry Hillman Sr., of Pittsburgh. Today Trailways members are spread across North America to provide charter bus service, bus tours and scheduled route services.

Note: A common sight on American highways in the 1960s was the Eagle Model 01 (above). For over four decades, some 8,000 Eagle "hightop" coaches were built in four countries on two continents. A thorough history of the Eagle coaches here.