If you ever get up to Glacier National Park in Montana and want to take a guided tour of the park, this is what you will be riding in. It is called the Red Bus Tour, for obvious reasons.
These vintage motor coaches, built by the White Motor Company in the 1930’s, travel over the Going-to-the-Sun Road and link all of the hotels and inns within the park, even going into the Canadian side of the park. They offer roll-back canvas tops which allow for very spectacular views.
The entire fleet of 33 touring coaches were completely renovated at a cost of $250,000 each in 2002 enabling the reds to continue serving the parks visitors. Glacier's fleet of touring coaches are thought to be the largest and oldest continually operating fleet of remaining White touring coaches. In the 1930s, the White Company built 500 of these buses for Glacier, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Zion , Bryce, Mt Rainier and Rocky Mountain National Parks. That was a fairly large production run of a unique vehicle and most of the buses in other parks were retired from service in the 1950s.
It certainly a fantastic way to see this magnificent park. I photographed this image up on the Going-to-the-Sun highway last July.
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Love the rock photos - looks like fun. No more of this "get more sunblock" stuff - I'll run you over with my snowblower! haha njc
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