– not only just to Binghamton but also all the way to New York City – along two routes – one via Binghamton and Scranton (in Pennsylvania) and one via Utica, Albany, Kingston, and Newburgh (all four in the Empire State), in part along the west shore of the Hudson River, and via Ridgewood (in New Jersey). [The route segment between Scranton and New York City, with interstate rights only (that is, without intrastate authority), duplicated a segment of the Great Lakes Stages on its route between Cleveland and New York City.] Colonial continued to increase its route network within its area (that is, in the central part of upstate New York). Late in 1928, Colonial extended westwardly from Syracuse to Rochester, then early in 1929 eastwardly from Albany to Boston (in Massachusetts) and westwardly again from Rochester to Buffalo. In 1928 Colonial began acquiring the intrastate rights between Syracuse and Buffalo by buying existing firms; that process continued until 1930, after it had become a member of the Greyhound family. In 1929 the Motor Transit Corporation (MTC) bought the Colonial Motor Coach Corporation, and (in a separate transaction) the MTC became renamed as The Greyhound Corporation. Colonial became renamed as the Eastern Greyhound Lines (EGL) of New York. [When Greyhound bought Colonial (in 1929) and renamed it as the EGL of New York, Greyhound thereby made its first presence in New England (between Albany and Boston, along the entire width of Massachusetts).] The first Eastern GL In April 1929, as previously mentioned, the Motor Transit Corporation (MTC) formed the Eastern GL (EGL), as a holding company (rather than an operating company), to own a number of Greyhound subsidiaries (both existing ones and future ones) to the east of Chicago – other than the Pennsylvania GL, in which the Pennsylvania Railroad would hold a large but minority interest. In 1929 the MTC bought both the Great Lakes Stages and the Colonial Motor Coach Corporation, then in 1930 renamed the GLS as the EGL of Ohio and renamed Colonial as the EGL of New York. [Those two operating companies, the EGL of Ohio and the EGL of New York, became operating subsidiaries of the undenominated main EGL (the holding company), as did the EGL of Michigan (formerly the Safety Motor Coach Lines) and the EGL of New England (which began running in 1930, between Boston and New York City).] Even before