Sunday, October 31, 2010

Sunday, October 31, 2010




Happy Halloween!




We had a fantastic day yesterday for our Annual Meeting with about 60 people in attendance.




Today is the close our our buses and baseball exhibit - The Buses of the Negro Leagues Baseball Teams and the Buses of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. We will have an encore presentation (promised to be bigger and better) starting next June 1 in time for our Spring Fling!




Here's a few pictures from the Annual Meeting. I'll post more as the week goes on--we had a great presentation by Peter Pan Buses....more of those pictures later in the week also.

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Saturday, October 30, 2010

We hope most of you are joining us today for our Annual Meeting and Luncheon--it will be a busy day at the Museum--hope to see you there--be sure to say hello!

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Only 3 days left until our Annual Meeting and Luncheon--will we be seeing you there???

We will be having a silent auction and our ever-favorite "surprise bag" raffle--this year I'm calling it the "Brown Bag Raffle"--come and join the fun! Saturday, October 30, 2010 - you can sign up at the door if you haven't already pre-registered.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Tuesday, October 26, 2010


Have you got an extra $1.2 MILLION hanging around that you don't know what to do with??? Well--look at this--I found a Futurliner for sale:


1939 GM FUTURLINER - ONE OF ONLY 12 MADE, The Futurliner is 33’ long, 8’ wide, 11’-7" tall vehicle with a whopping 248" wheelbase. An unusual feature of the Futurliner is its dual (side by side) front wheels. Each wheel has its own set of brakes, brake drums and bearings. The driver's eyes are 10 feet above road level. He has a single seat which is located at the front center of the compartment. The driver's area is intended to feel like a cockpit similar to the fighter planes of the era.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Monday, October 25, 2010

In 1914, Carl Eric Wickman, a miner, was trying to sell the Hupmobile, a 7-passenger auto, to citizens of the Mesabi Iron Ore Range in Minnesota. A failure as a salesman, Wickman used the Hupmobile to open a bus line, carrying passengers between the towns of Hibbing and Alice, a 2-mi. journey.

The bus was so popular that Wickman bought more autos and added 3 extra seats to each one. The long, sleek appearance of the "expanded" buses plus their gray color caused someone to remark that they looked "just like greyhounds streaking by." From then on, Wickman used the slogan, "Ride the Greyhounds."

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Saturday, October 23, 2010

One week from today is our Annual Meeting and Luncheon--have you made your reservations??? Don't miss out on "Bus Day" at the Museum.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Friday, October 22, 2010




Have you seen the Buses in Baseball (All American Girls Professional Baseball League and Negro Leagues Baseball) exhibit??? If not, you have just a little over a week to catch it before it is taken down. Hopefully, we will have an even better display with this theme next June!

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Thursday, October 21, 2010


Unfortunately, due to her health, Lois "Tommie" Barker will not be able to join us on Saturday for her scheduled autograph signing. Get well soon, Tommie--we will miss you!

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Wednesday, October 20, 2010




We did manage to fit in an extra bus and the buses are a little tight--but it saves one from being out in the weather.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Tuesday, October 19, 2010







Because it was raining when we brought the buses back in--they ALL had to be wiped down--so as we were putting them in place--another crew was trying to dry them off. As you can see--the longer buses are much harder to maneuver around! The picture on the right is the newly refurbished CHECKER!

Monday, October 18, 2010

Monday, October 18, 2010







STOP THE PRESSES - we had another reporter at the Museum yesterday for the Buses of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League - here's the link to the Lebanon Daily News article: http://www.ldnews.com/sports/ci_16363478
Here are more pictures from the move--we had a crew of about 15 people--which really helped....many Bus Museum volunteers--and several AACA Car Museum people....thank you to everyone who stayed until the wee hours of Thursday morning!

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Saturday, October 16, 2010







Here are a few more of our "move-in" pictures--in no particular order--randomly selected from the 165 photos I took. I hope to find time to put them on a DVD as I did last year--perhaps this year I'll have the DVD for sale (with proceeds going to the Museum)--I'll keep you posted.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Friday, October 15, 2010







I'm having another nerve block done on my back today--so trying to get a few blogs "in the can"--I'll be putting up some more random pictures of our move last week.






Until you actually experience it--you don't realize what a huge undertaking this is--not only to move 10-11 buses that are not running under their own power--but trying to avoid all the columns on the floor as well!

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Are you planning on attending our Annual Meeting??? It is coming up in just two short weeks. Be sure you have your reservation in for the luncheon and the bus fan trip, if you care to take it--they are going to Rohrer Bus in Duncannon, where the Pierce Arrow is being restored, also will be stopping at the Annex and Capital Area Transit.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Sunday, October 10, 2010


It is with extreme sadness that I write this blog--we have just been told that longtime Bus Museum friend, contributor and member, Bruce LoMar was killed in an accident on Saturday, October 2, 2010.

His sister writes "while Bruce left no instructions, I am sure that if his friends in the bus community wish to send a donation in his honor, there could be no more appropriate recipient than the Museum of Bus Transportation."

Bruce is the gentleman who made the "paper bus cutouts"--which he donated the rights to to the Museum....we still sell them in the store.

Bruce, dear friend, may you rest in peace.

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Saturday, October 9, 2010


Here's a picture of the crew taken about 2:30 AM on Thursday morning! And they are all still smiling!
We really would like to thank EVERYONE for a great effort and job well done!

Friday, October 8, 2010

Friday, October 8, 2010







As more buses were moved in--the maneuvering became more and more difficult with some back/forth, pushing/pulling going on....see the pics.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Thursday, October 7, 2010




It is back to business today at the Museum after last night's "Night at the Museum" affair for the AACA Museum. We pulled an overnighter and all the buses and the displays are back in place.

As soon as I get some sleep--I'll try to upload my pictures and post them. Okay - update--here are a few pictures--most of the buses get pulled in, then must be pushed/pulled by hand to get into place--not a simple job. There are columns to maneuver around, too.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

From The Washington Post: Police: Bus driver died of heart attack before crash

By Dan Morse
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

The driver of a tour bus that crashed along Interstate 270 died of a heart attack just before the bus tumbled down a 45-foot embankment, state police officials said Monday.

Autopsy results confirmed accounts provided by passengers that Joseph A. Clabaugh, 66, was sweating profusely Wednesday afternoon as the bus started bumping along a guardrail along an HOV ramp in Bethesda. "We started veering to the left," passenger Sally Currie said in an interview Monday. "I stood up and tapped him on the shoulder, and I said: 'Hey, sir. Is everything okay?' And with that he slumped over."

Currie said that she saw the driver's eyes roll back and that he appeared to lose consciousness. She tried to grab the steering wheel and change the bus's direction. But the position of the driver made that difficult. "It was a futile effort. . . . That's when we went over," she said.

The bus burst through the guardrail, rolled at least once as it went down and came to rest on the edge of another section of I-270. Had the bus tumbled just a few feet more, it could have fallen across the busy section at 4 p.m., the start of the afternoon rush.

All 11 passengers - five adults and six children - survived. They had come from Pennsylvania for the day. Some went to the National Zoo and the rest to the Smithsonian, Currie said. Crash investigators learned Monday that the state medical examiner's office ruled that Clabaugh died of a heart attack, not from any injuries in the crash.

Currie said passengers had enjoyed getting to know Clabaugh, a former police officer who liked meeting people. He'd been upbeat, and he spoke about his dogs. "He was wonderful on the bus trip," Currie said. "He was very talkative."

Monday, October 4, 2010

Monday, October 4, 2010

This is Hershey MEET WEEK - so what is the weather??? Didn't need a weatherman to predict this--same old, same old---rainy, drizzly today and tomorrow and cool/clear the rest of the week!

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Saturday, October 2, 2010







Are you ready for Hershey Meet Week next week??? We are--Gift Shop is stocked--ready for you to come make some great purchases!






We have new caps and visors with the MBT logo and of course our fabulous BOOK SECTION, featuring the latest publication: Motorcoach Milestones--a book on our very own timeline! Don't forget to pick up your very own copy while you are here! You won't find a better selection of BUS-related books anywhere!

Friday, October 1, 2010

Friday, October 1, 2010

So you like Greyhound--how much do you really like it??? Enough to move into an old Greyhound terminal??? Checkout this ad on Craigs List:

http://redding.craigslist.org/reb/1970178219.html