Continental also had this service between Atl & Wash.D.C. And Memphis & Knoxville,TN
And a whole lot more other places.....From New York City to Boston-Portsmouth, NH-Portland, Me., also to Hartford-Springfield,, as well as to Worcester-Nashua, and Manchester, NH. Going south to Baltimore, Laurel, Silver Spring, and Washington. Going west to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Albuquerque, Flagstaff, Phoenix, and Los Angeles. There was also an earlier transcon from New York to Cleveland, Chicago, Des Moines, Omaha, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, Reno, San Francisco. On the West Coast, there were Los Angeles-Fresno-San Francisco and Los Angeles- Sacramento-Portland-Seattle runs. Later, a San Francisco-Portland run was added. There were Denver-Colorado Springs-Pueblo trips, as well as a Stapleton Airport-Denver- Broadmoor Hotel trip. There was a couple of trips between Kansas City-Topeka-Wichita. In Texas, there were four, 3 hour and 45 minute trips between Dallas and Houston. Other routes in Texas included Dallas to San Antonio, Houston to Corpus Christi, San Antonio to Corpus Christi, and Corpus Christi to Brownsville.
Another unusual pool was between Continental Trailways (Dixie Lines), and Oklahoma Transportation Company on a Dallas to Oklahoma City Five Star...
Because Continental Dixie pooled with OTC on that local route changing drivers and carriers at Ardmore, Ok., when they started the Five Star nonstop, they still considered it a pool run. To balance mileages, a CTS driver based in Dallas did one roundtip each day, and an OTC driver based in OKC did one roundtrip from there each day. All the hostesses were CTS, as were the Golden Eagles. Each driver had to prepare two trip report envelopes each way...
What makes it even more interesting, is that CTS also had another division, American Buslines running one local 'franchise trip' each day on that same route all the way from OKC to Dallas on its own rights. They could have cut OTC out of the run by letting ABL operate both nonstop Five Stars,, but I am guessing that they did not want to antagonize their pool partner that way...
There were some other Five Star runs....at one time I believe there was a Memphis-Jackson-New Orleans trip. And Adirondack Trailways ran New York-Albany-Schenectady, a couple of times a day....
The Knoxville-Nashville-Memphis trip was first promoted as the "Golden Holiday Five Star Service".....besides the city terminals, it also stopped at Knoville's Holiday Inn - Central, Nashville's Holiday Inn - Vanderbilt, and Memphis's Holiday Inn -Poplar.
When Kemmons Wilson, Chairman and CEO of Holiday Inn purchased TCO Industries, the holding company that included Continental Trailways, he had visions of Golden Eagles connecting selected Holiday Inn's nationwide. This run was the pilot of that proposal. Alas, it never expanded much beyond that run....