page_title: Red Jammers
section_title: Yellowstone
hierarchical_section_title: Red Jammers / Other parks / Yellowstone
caption_attribution_description: A White tour bus is stopped in front of the Washoe Theater in Anaconda, Montana. The theater is one of the best surviving examples of art deco architecture.
context_page_description: Red Jammers are the vintage White Motor Company/Bender Body Company Model 706 buses used at Glacier National Park in the United States to transport park visitors since 1936. While the buses are called reds for their distinctive livery, painted to match the color of ripe mountain ash berries, the bus drivers are called jammers because of the sound the gears made when the driver shifts on the steep roads of the park. The "jamming" sound came from the unsynchronised transmissions, where double-clutching was required to shift gears prior to a 1989 retrofit that added automatic transmissions.
context_section_description: Yellowstone National Park, which originally purchased 98 White 706 buses and was that model's largest operator, currently has eight of the original White Model 706 buses available for tours and also keeps one in its original condition. Yellowstone's eight operating buses were repurchased from the Skagway Street Car Company in 2001. Skagway had acquired a small fleet of ex-Yellowstone buses from private collectors starting in 1987. The eight were restored in 2007 by TransGlobal. The restoration mirrored the earlier one performed in 2000–02 by Ford and TransGlobal for the Red Jammers; the bodies were removed and placed on a Ford E-450 chassis with a 5.4L V8 gas engine. In addition, heaters were fitted (as delivered from White, there were no heaters and passengers were given lap blankets to stay warm) and the materials were upgraded.
  In addition, a private operator restored two tour buses originally built for Yellowstone for tours of Gettysburg National Battlefield. Another ex-Yellowstone White 706 has been used by the Historic Flight Foundation satellite campus in Spokane, Washington since 2012 for special group tours of Felts Field and special occasion transportation. Restored ex-Yellowstone 427 is available for rent from American Movie Trucks. Two ex-Yellowstone White 706s were restored in the 1990s by Jack Damratoski; they were eventually sold to conduct tours in the Napa Valley region of California.
  A White 706 which operates in Anaconda, giving tourists a ride around the town, is one of the buses originally built for Yellowstone, repainted in Red Jammer livery, distinguished by the rear swing-out doors. The rear compartment of the Yellowstone buses was used for stowing luggage. Access to the rear compartment of the Red Jammers built for Glacier, which is equipped with a bench seat for passengers, is provided through a single curbside door.
caption: Red Jammer replica (ex-Yellowstone) 1936 White 706 in Anaconda, Montana
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