Pacific Bus Museum
The Pacific Bus Museum
The Pacific Bus Museum (PBM), is a museum dedicated to preserving and sharing vintage motor buses and bus history.
The Pacific Bus Museum, located in Fremont, CA, has a collection of running and driving buses from the 1920s to the present. The collection is on display to the public the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of every month.
PBM History
Before the Pacific Bus Museum was formed, there was a group of Los Angeles bus enthusiasts who called themselves the West Coast Motor Coach Society (WCMCS)[1]. They met for displays and excursions on buses that were privately owned by individual group members. They changed their name to the West Coast Motor Coach Museum (WCMCM) in July 1986.
In 1989, the Pacific Bus Museum was formed as the Northern California successor to the West Coast Motor Coach Museum[2]. Unlike the WCMCM, the Pacific Bus Museum owned its coaches.
In 1991, The Pacific Bus Museum was incorporated as a tax-exempt IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. The Pacific Bus Museum relocated to its current home in Fremont, CA, in the Fall of 1996.
PBM Focus
The Pacific Bus Museum collection includes coaches from across the United States[3], but the museum is primarily focused on Western United States and California bus history.
In addition to its collection of restored vintage buses, the museum also has an Archive with historical reference materials on Motor Coach Builders, Carriers, and Bus History[4]. The archives are also focused on Western United States and California.
Visiting the Museum
The Pacific Bus Museum’s restored bus collection, in Fremont, CA, is open to the public the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of every month from 10am until 2pm. Visiting is free, but a donation is requested. You can get more information from this PBM web page:
Museum Bus Fleet
The museum's collection of restored buses is in Fremont, while its yet-to-be-restored coaches are housed in Williams, CA.
| Year Built | Builder | Model | Restored As |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | Mack | BK | Greyhound Mack |
| 1924 | Fageol Motors Company | Safety Coach | Peninsula Charter Lines #216 |
| 1931 | Twin Coach | Model 15 | East Bay Motor Coach Lines #308 |
| 1945 | General Motors Truck & Coach | PD-3302 | Pacific Greyhound Lines #1826 |
| 1948 | General Motors Truck & Coach | PD-4151 "Silversides" | Pacific Greyhound Lines #1947 |
| 1948 | Twin Coach | 34S | Monterey-Salinas Transit #80 |
| 1951 | General Motors Truck & Coach | TGH-3101 | Santa Cruz Transit Company #2 |
| 1952 | Crown Coach | A-779-11 "Supercoach" | Los Gatos High School #4 |
| 1955 | General Motors Truck & Coach | model | Western Greyhound Lines #8005 |
| 1955 | General Motors Truck & Coach | PD-4501 "Scenicruiser" | Scenicruiser Party Bus PBM1 |
| 1955 | Flxible | 218FA1-55-29IC Visicoach "Clipper" | Glacier National Park Transportation #77 |
| 1955 | General Motors Truck & Coach | TDM-4512 | Peerless Stages #246 |
| 1958 | General Motors Truck & Coach | TDH-4512 | Niles Coach Lines #128 |
| 1958 | General Motors Truck & Coach | TDH-4801 | Key System Transit Lines #2103 |
| 1964 | General Motors Truck & Coach | PD-4106 | Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno Stage Lines #172 |
| 1964 | Motor Coach Industries (MCI) | MC-5 | Yosemite Community College District #2623 |
| 1966 | Crown Coach | A-743-11 HPO (Highway Post Office) | Highway Post Office (HPO) RV Conversion #206 |
| 1968 | Crown Coach | A-743-11 "Supercoach" | Natomas Unified School District #3 |
| 1969 | Flxible | 223DD-D2 | Joaquin Delta Junior College District #9E |
| 1970 | General Motors Truck & Coach | T8H-5305 | San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) #3270 |
| 1971 | Flxible | 111CC-C31 | Southern California Rapid Transit District (SCRTD) #7103 |
| 1976 | General Motors Truck & Coach | T6H-4523N | Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District #842 |
| 1979 | Gillig | 855-9 | Shasta College #7 |
| 1984 | Transportation Manufacturing Corporation (TMC) | MC-9 | Yosemite Community College #9049 |
| 1991 | Gillig | 3096TB6V92TAC "Phantom" | Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) #2738 |
| 1999 | Motor Coach Industries (MCI) | 102-DL3 | Greyhound Mobile Museum #6159 |
External links
Notes
- ↑ About West Coast Motor Coach Musuem. Pacific Bus Museum. Retrieved 2025-11-02.
- ↑ PBM History. Pacific Bus Museum. Retrieved 2025-11-02.
- ↑ PBM Bus Roster. Pacific Bus Museum. Retrieved 2025-11-02.
- ↑ PBM Archives. Pacific Bus Museum. Retrieved 2025-11-02.
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