GX-2

The GX-2, short for Greyhound Experimental number 2, was a prototype bus built for Greyhound in 1948 and 1949 that grew into the Scenicruiser. After the double-decked GX-1, Greyhound president Orville Caesar chose a deck-and-a-half layout with an observation dome. The final design was 40 feet long, eight feet wide and almost 11 feet tall and seated ten passengers on the lower deck and 33 on the upper. Greyhound engineers and mechanics built it in Chicago with help from Raymond Loewy Associates and the General Motors styling section, and a GM Diesel 6-71 engine sat across the rear. It was revealed on 1 July 1949, had visited 46 states by June 1950, and entered Greyhound service around 1952. It was later sold on and was most likely scrapped near Nashville, Tennessee.