Long story short officially the Museum of Bus Transportation is no longer in existence. What remains of the collection now a part of the Antique Automobile Collector's Association, which the bus museum has long shared the facilities with the blessing of the parent automobile museum. It was a nice partnership though in fairness the bus museum was poorly managed & sadly folded due to finances. They do have an annex area if you will though a bit off the parent museum's grounds a few miles away. That is where a majority of buses are stored & maintained. As majority of vintage transportation museums go,. yes majority are inaccessible by public transportation of any type. Pacific Bus Museum, located in Fremont, California is somewhat accessible by BART though too it's a few miles, perhaps 3 from Fremont BART Station to the museum. Sad to see I was a former member myself of both bus museums too! Nice to see they do hold 2 large bus shows, one called "Spring Fling" which happens of all times, 1st Saturday of June. I think the other large event is in October.
I'm a simple Cubano...I hear Cuba mentioned, I'm summoned. Yup, that Hershey Interurban fact is indeed true, though while it still goes by that name, the village of Hershey has since been renamed to Camilo Cienfuegos, and it doesn't just go to Havana but also the city of Matanzas. It is Cuba's surviving electric line. They originally used cars bought from by JG Brill Company, but they've used old Catalonian ones since the 1990s. That aside...this is incredible! You even straight up stole Jackson's ✨Menu shot, menu shot! Right now, you're looking at the menu shot✨ song from Miles...well played! The fact you did all this for an April Fools' video, is the kind of dedication that I respect!
The Jitney is from Atlantic City, NJ. They've been there since 1915.. With an ad for Hackney's that that was a landmark seafood eatery. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_City_Jitney_Association
So what else is new? We live in an automobile society. You can thank General Motors, Big Oil, the rubber tire industry, and the asphalt people for it. Too bad for those of us who never owned a car and don't drive. I'm almost 80 years old and have used public transit all of my life. I laugh at high gas prices, costly tolls, costly car insurance, traffic tickets, rip-off repairs, rip-off towing charges, gouging parking charges, stress of driving, road rage, etc., etc. I've missed all of those things. And I've been lucky enough to have had a pass to ride transit free for many years.
I loved this Caleb In Transit video! Also, I did a little digging. It looks like that jitney was one of the (possibly original? Can't find any matching pictures) Atlantic City Jitneys. The ad message is for a once world-famous, 3000+ seat seafood restaurant which since burnt down, was rebuilt, was sold a few times, and was demolished. It now appears to be a city park. The Main Jitney Route still goes right past the former site!
Ah yes, the holy city of Hershey...the Mecca of the American exceptionalist religion with its glorious candied corporate goodness Chocolate World tour and Hersheypark. It is a rite of passage for every Pennsylvanian to visit Hersheypark and take the tour, bro! But hey, at least you made the trek to the Museum of Bus Transportation and Cars and STuff I don't Remember The Exact Name of the Place I'm Going to Help to make a point, no matter how long it was! And those markets you visited are definitely breaking the law as I'm pretty sure every store in PA is required to carry Snyder's of Hanover of the finest quality. From the Aleena parody, the map edit with the colored route, and even the closeups...this was chef's kiss.
HAHA! This was one of your first videos I saw, so I assumed your entire format was a Miles impersonation, which sounds good in theory, but is probably better off not being the case. Also, that to-do list is hysterical
Solidarity buddy. I went to Glasgow's Riverside Museum (formerly known as the Glasgow Museum of Transport) this week which is more transit accessible than this one, BUT the route does also feature a short walk along a busy expressway just to harsh your transit buzz. It's excellent though. Strongly recommend if you're ever in the UK.
You picked the wrong time of year to take a three mile walk to get to the museum. You should have done this trip in the spring or fall when the weather would have been better or taken an Uber like you did at the end of your trip. By the way what was that snack you kept looking for? You showed it at the end of the video but it was so fast I could not see what you were so excited to find. As usual another good video trying to show some transit history.
So... funny story... I used to work at the New York Transit Museum, and one day we had a trip out to this place for our museum members. Rented a coach bus for the drive from Brooklyn. we get there, we see everything in that place... and then went to that Hershey's visitor complex. We got on that fake trolley for a tour of the town, and then everyone went on that Omni-mover ride. Well, mostly everyone. I stayed outside just in case. So I'm minding my own business, when someone comes up behind me and asks where the rest rooms are. "Sorry... I don't know." I say as I turn to look at them, a lady holding a kid's hand. "But you work here..." "No... I don't." "But your shirt says staff..." Here's the thing. I had worked a previous bus event the museum had done, (the 2023 edition of which, as a matter of fact, is going on RIGHT NOW as I am typing this...) and was wearing my event staff T-shirt, which did have the word staff printed on it... So this lady had seen the word staff and assumed I worked there (never mind the shirt was in Fifth Avenue Coach Company Yellow with green lettering) But there is one more wrinkle to this story. at least when I was there, when we were out in the field for trips and events... museum staff wore standard Issue MTA NYCT safety vests. The model in use at the time, had a big silver stripe across the back with the agency logo... which partly obstructed the word staff... so she had only seen the top half of the word, through the orange plastic mesh vest I was wearing over it.
There’s a similar small,charming Greyhound museum in Hibbing, MN. I’d recommend it on the absolutely minuscule chance you ever find yourself in rural northern Minnesota. Theoretically you could access it by transit by taking the single daily intercity bus from Duluth and walking the 3.1 miles from the other side of town.
You have my sympathy . The 3 miles I had to walk from Golden Panda Simi Valley ( nearest bus stop) to the Reagan Presidential Library (3 miles) were easy compared to this though the final climb up in relative heat was a bit tiring. Although it was mostly highway walking the sidewalks were huge. It took over 3 hours from Downtown LA and Metrolink did not connect to the bus so a long wait was had.
It is a similar case at my nearest bus museum but they do sometimes have open weekends where there are buses visiting from other areas when the lay on free vintage buses to the nearest city's bus station, so that is helpful. That is three miles distance also. Thank you for showing us around the museum, it is most interesting. The bus you pointed out with the raised portion towards the back was commonly used by Greyhound bus service, there was a model of one at one time.
Majority of streetcar & train museums too are located in less then accessible places. Then too understand majority are ran by non profit organizations & real estate an expensive venture anywhere. Western Railway Museum, in Rio Vista Junction also in middle of nowhere. One time accessible by Delta Breeze, a small town public transportation system that one could catch from North Concord/Martinez Station though that too no longer exists. Didn't help when the only time that bus operated was on weekdays when normally the museum isn't open to the general public.
This reminds me of our trip to Harrisburg last December when we put in quite a few miles walking, sometimes on road shoulders without sidewalks, because none of the buses run on Sundays and our hotel was in Camp Hill.
Hershey, official sponsor of ''Hey atleast we're not Nestle, amirite?'' If anyone of us nerds ever becomes like Warren Buffett levels of rich wealthy they definitely need to open an actual transit museum. Get some cheap land at the far end of some commuter rail line, build a bunch of halls to exhibit all the vehicles and signs etc, a mile or so of both trolley tracks and bus lane. Write it off your taxes as charity and there ya go. Also those animatronics are nightmare fuel.
Reminds me a bit of the Seashore Trolley Museum up in Kennebunkport, ME. It's an amazing museum with tons of trolleys on display and an active trolley loop... but absolutely no way to get there without driving. The nearest Amtrak station is 8 miles away, and there's nothing transit-wise between them. You could walk if you felt like spending 2 and a half hours traveling on foot through Maine, I guess. Either way, another ironic example of a transit museum that's inaccessible by transit.
The worst thing about that is the amtrak tracks pass about 0.5 mi from the museum, but it doesn't stop. So on the train you eventually backtrack everything you just walked.
Yes Seashore Trolley Museum is a very interesting place to visit. Need 2 days to do it justice. Like the Illinois Railway Museum. Before I visited a late friend of mine warned me of the same thing. Somehow he mentioned getting there by train though said it was quite a walk to get there & no public transportation access.
Nice Video. The bus museum usually have its big bus event the first weekend of June, which is when i'm going. AS a New Yorker I've never been to the Empire State Building
I've never been to Hershey but I have visited Cadbury World in Birmingham, England. Definitely the same vibe with creepy animatronics and songs written by guys fired by Disney for their coke habits.
I Was having a sad evening, But Your Adventure Sure Did Bring A Smile To My Face..I Thought the Museum was cool. I Am glad you called A Uber To catch your Bus. I will agree with another comment. Hershey Is Not A Friendly Company.
Do you ever get to ride public transport in Europe? In Rennes, France we have 2 metros and our town only has 215,000 people. The busses are great too and go everywhere. I'm from England and in small towns there we don't get metros.
I wear masks outdoors during the winter when the windchill gets really low, when worn with a beanie and hooded coat, the extra warmth from trapped air keeps my face reasonably warm. I’d wear a balaclava, but I don’t own one and don’t really want to look like a bank robber.
Great video Why am I not surprised you can’t take transit there. Hershey is a bit of a car sewer and the park has the largest parking lots I’ve ever seen. But I’ll confess to being a roller coaster buff so I’ve had many a fun day. sadly the park has this little theme park rideish monorail that passes literally over the Reading mainline and towards the actual village. it would be such an easy connection if they actually had a Keystone II via the reading or have a NYP-HAR route via Bethlehem-Allentown-Reading. Too bad Norfolk Southern would do everything in their power to derail such an effort. A bus museum accessible by car just lays bare a state of car-dependency.
All of the CAT bus stop signs that i've seen say BUS STOP on the back. I have no clue what the purpose of this is as it is usually obscured from the road.
If you are walking to the bus stop the rear of the sign is visible to you and spares the transit system from putting a full sigh on both sides of the pole.
Compare that with the Sacramento Railway Museum right next to the Sacramento Valley station though, and it’s a different story. Goes to show that museums about trains are dedicated to the cause
Been to the State Railroad Museum before. What I found ironic was one year visiting on National Train Day. Funny nothing special gong on either @ the Valley Train Station or the museum. When I got to the ticket booth to get a ride on the train, I asked the Conductor if anything special was happening that day. He just looked @ me with a bewildered look like missing the memo I guess!
When you said "I have to walk 3 Miles in THIS!" at first I was like, wow a mile must be a lot but then I googled it and it's less than 5km, so basically a 5-10min walk, I really don't see what the big deal is...
??? On average, 1 mile translates to 20 min of walking, so 3 mi is about an hour. 3 mi (or 5km) is about a 5-10min bike ride maybe if you're a fast rider, but certainly not a 5-10min walk.
Ok I rechecked the distance of my own path that I walk and it turns out I was wrong- it's around 2km(1.24miles) and takes me 25min to walk, so yeah us europeans don't walk 3x as fast
While the Steamtown NHS and the Electric City Trolley Museum can not be accessed by train you can get to them by public transit. The intercity bus station is in front of the mall and both museums can be accessed from a bridge out the back of the malls food court area. Also since it is in downtown it is accessible to locals on the regional transit system.
On the bus it was to prevent myself from getting sick and not being able to do further adventures over winter break. Outside I don't normally wear it, I just forgot about it
