BusTalk

[Mr. Linsky]

When I worked as provider of vintage vehicles for '"A League of Their Own' - a 1992 Columbia Pictures release directed by Penny Marshall and starring Tom Hanks about a traveling female baseball team, I had to find three GM PD-3751's or PD-4151's (ex Greyhound Silversides) or any combination thereof with one going to Culver City Studios and two going to Evansville, Indiana with one of those for road shots (seen in upper photo) and the other sliced into three sections for the set (one of which seen in lower photo).

The road bus shown was leased from a private owner in the Midwest and the segmented model shown was found as a derelict under a Freeway in San Francisco and is now stored for future use along with cutaway front and rear clips at Columbia's Culver City prop department.

Upper frame courtesy of IMCDb.
Lower frame courtesy of Columbia Studios

Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, New York

[Mr. Linsky]

As an addendum to the above post on 'A League of Their Own', I have added a photo that I had misplaced which brings the whole story together.

Seen in a publicity shot taken in Evansville Indiana at the time of filming is the one running Greyhound that I referred to with the cast including Tom Hanks.

BTW; we paid the owner of the bus $700.00 per day plus expenses for the two weeks that we used it.

Enjoy,

Photo courtesy of Columbia Studios

Mr. 'L'