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The History of Greyhound and Trailways

Northeast Missouri Greyhound Lines

Dr. D.B. “Doc” Rushing
©  Copyright, 2026, Duncan Bryant Rushing

         The Northeastern Missouri Greyhound Lines was a tiny short-time subsidiary of the Southwestern Greyhound Lines (SWGL). It existed from 25 June 1946 until some unknown time in 1956. It was often known as the Northeastern Greyhound Lines, the NEMo Greyhound Lines, or the NEMo GL.

         Here, below, is a description of the NEMo GL, which appears in my article about the Southwestern GL:

               Robert Harris Finley Sr., of Mexico, Missouri, apparently started in transport as a driver during 1927‑29 in the YellowaY and YellowaY-Pioneer systems.  Afterward he ran the branch or feeder route between Kingdom City and Jefferson City (both in Missouri) under a lease from the Pickwick-Greyhound (PG) Lines.  Later, after the PG Lines went through bankruptcy, after The Greyhound Corporation (under the supervision of the trustee in bankruptcy) wound up the business of the PG Lines, after Greyhound bought the leftover remnant of the PG Lines and renamed it as the first Western GL, and after Greyhound transferred many of the former-PG routes to the SWGL, then the SWGL took back the leased route from Finley.  Then Finley created his Finley Bus Lines and began to run between Kingdom City and Hannibal via Mexico (about 75 miles), and soon he added a route between Mexico and Shelbyville, Missouri (about 52 miles).  [More about the PG Lines is available in my article about it, and more about the YellowaY and YellowaY-Pioneer systems is available in my articles about the Teche GL, the Overland GL, and the Pacific GL.]

               On 25 June 1946 the SWGL incorporated a new firm, the Northeastern Missouri Greyhound Lines.  The SWGL owned 55 percent of the common stock, and the same Robert Finley owned 45 percent.  The new concern was sometimes known also as the Northeastern GL or the NEMo GL.  It ran the two older former-Finley routes, between Kingdom City and Jefferson City and between Kingdom City and Hannibal.  The Finley Bus Lines kept the route between Mexico and Shelbyville and continued to run it.  Then in 1950 the NEMo GL extended its Hannibal line to Springfield, Illinois, where it made connections for Chicago and many other points beyond to the north, east, and northeast; however, that extension did not last long.  [The Jacksonville Trailways already offered three daily skeds in each direction between Hannibal and Springfield via Jacksonville, Illinois, so that was strong and effective competition on a minor route with only limited passenger traffic.]

               Sometime in 1956 Finley and a sister bought the interest of the SWGL in the NEMo GL and then renamed it as the Northeastern Missouri Lines (merely by dropping the word greyhound), sometimes known also as the NEMo Lines.  The renamed firm continued to run until 1972, when one or more parties bought it and renamed it as the C&H Lines.  Then in 1977 the firm ceased to run and ceased to exist.

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Posted at 04:48 EDT, Saturday, 08 August 2026.

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