Adventures Throughout the Tri-State Area, 11/04/2018 Part 1 - Kentucky Buses

Yesterday, I met up with a friend from Cincinnati to go photograph buses and test out my new-to-me camera that I bought the day before. Unfortunately, I only had a telephoto lens for it. Aside from that, I still got some good pictures.

We decided to meet up at a truck shop in Grayson, KY with a small fleet of retired school buses of their own. These buses looked to have come from Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. I found these the day before on the trip when I bought my camera.

The two of us got our pictures and decided it would be best to head less than two miles up the road to East Carter High School to check out some of Carter County's fleet. In their little lot, they had a couple buses that sparked our interest. They had two retired Second Generation IC CE's. They looked to have been older by the quality of the paint. One of them had a bent rear axle. They also had a early model AmTran Genesis that looks to be the next on their "For Sale" list.

My friend had sent me a post from the forums School Bus Fleet dating back to 2006, suggesting that there was a Delmar-Keenes Superior sitting along Route 60 between Ashland and Cannonsburg, so we went to look for it. We never found it unfortunately, but we did find a bus at a church that I'll include in the next post. We also found a retired 2004 IC CE from Carter County.

While at the church, we talked with the pastor who told us that there was another church down the road with a "Chromed out blue bus that looks BAD [in the best sense]" so you know what we did next. We of course went down there and took a look at it. The pastor of the first church also told us that they had dropped a significant amount of money on a new bus, so when we saw the blue colored Blue Bird 3800, we guessed that it was originally ordered by the church. It had coach style seating, A/C, chrome rims, a chrome grille, and it had tinted windows. The bus also had no signs of ever having warning lights, a stop sign, or a crossing arm. Behind it was a 1995 Wayne 3800 that was from an unknown origin.

We pondered what to do next, so we decided to go back up the road to Boyd County's bus garage and get some photos. We had both been there before on our own time so we didn't grab too many pictures while we were there. From there we decided to go to West Virginia, which is just a couple miles from where we were.