Today I'll review my work location at YNP. I work at the "Bus Barn" at Old Faithful Village. My primary function is washing different kinds of tour buses assigned to the Old Faithful Transportation Department. I also drive-escort Tour Guides to different sites and drop them off, or pick them up from riding on private motor coaches. Private tour groups hire our Tour Guides to provide oral presentation throughout bus tours in Yellowstone. Our guides can be gone from anywhere between 1-4 days depending on tour type. My driving take anywhere from 1-3 hours depending on location drop-off/pick-up. I really enjoy the driving trips as it allows me to site see along the way (and I'm getting paid at the same time).

Here is a tour of the Bus Barn:

 
Rear of Bus Barn with our wash pad. My dormitory by the way is less than a five minute walk from here.

My office.

1936 White tour bus. These buses were sold to Glacier National Park in the 1970's. Yellowstone realized their mistake of selling these nostalgic vehicles to Glacier, and bought them back the next year agreeing to pay $1,000 more than what they sold them for. Four are stationed at Old Faithful and a few are at other locations. They have original bodies & chassis' with updated engines, transmissions, and reupholstered seats.

Interior/dash of 1936 White - Notice original wood trim around windshield.

MCI - MC5 Tour Bus. MCI first began building buses for Greyhound in 1939.

Yellowstone has five of these and they are all located at our bus barn. They are 1975's and were purchased new by Yellowstone for public and private tours. Two of them have restrooms. All of them are powered by Detroit diesel engines and have over 2-million miles each. My co-worker is seen at the right of the bus. His name is Virgil and he's from Texas. He's been here four years and the past two years he worked through the winter season driving snow coaches and snowmobile tours.

MC5 - interior

MC5 - driver's seat

Glaval Tour Bus - we have six of these at our location

Glaval - interior

2009 Prevost Tour Bus - newest bus in our fleet. This is the only bus of it's kind here in YNP. This goes out on 1-day, and 4-day tours.

Prevost - interior (not sure who picked out the pink color combo, but it wasn't me).

Chevrolet Step Vans - we have five of these and they go out for single day tours. I failed to mention everything here except for the MC5's and Prevost are all 4-wheel drive for obvious reasons. These vans and the Glavals also get their wheels removed and replaced with rubber snow tracks (kind of like a army tank) for winter tours.

Washed and ready for service!