Historic Preservation

The AACA Museum, Inc. at Hershey is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of motor vehicle history in a manner that provides for the education and entertainment of our guests.

Our goal is to deliver a world-class automotive experience through innovative and interactive exhibits that appeal to all ages and illustrate the historical evolution and potential future impacts of one of the most culturally defining innovations of modern times.

Busboys Collection is the classic bus preservation endeavor of the Holter family, headed by brothers Dan and Stan, a.k.a. the Bus Boys. (the American Bus Pickers). With a history of owning and running multiple bus operations since 1959 as solely a family operation, our experience in the transportation industry has given us an appreciation for preserving our industry’s heritage. Our Busboys Collection endeavors provide the public with hands-on experience to enjoy the history of transportation with various buses of all makes and models, along with many antique artifacts, memorabilia, and a library of paper material. Busboys is committed to keeping our industry’s heritage alive by sharing our collections with the public for generations to come.

Phoenix Coach Global celebrates its relationship with the Bus Boys Collection by offering products that help fund the collection.

Hibbing is recognized as the birthplace of the bus industry in the United States. 

Visitors can now see and hear the story at Hibbing’s newest attraction which includes seventeen historical buses.

To start the tour, visitors pass through a tunnel that comes alive with auto sounds of 1914 and the Hupmobile that could not be sold. 

The Midwest Bus Museum was incorporated in January of 2020 with the purpose of preserving bus transportation history with an emphasis on North American school buses.

Phoenix Coach Global celebrates its relationship with the Midwest Bus Museum by offering products that help fund them.

The Pacific Bus Museum welcomes you to learn about our organization and our activities and see photographs of our historic, vintage, and classic bus collection. We are a resource for the history of buses and bus companies from California and the western United States.

The Pacific Bus Museum is currently located in Fremont, California and is open monthly during most of the year (see schedule below).
We schedule monthly workdays and also attend events where you can see our buses on display.

THE SHORE LINE TROLLEY MUSEUM, operated by the Branford Electric Railway Association, Inc., strives to educate the public about the story of the trolley and related forms of mass transit in their historic context. The Museum operates the Branford Electric Railway, opened in 1900, which is recognized by the U.S. Department of the Interior as the oldest continuously-operated suburban trolley line in the United States.  The museum’s line and equipment are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Branford Electric Railway Historic District.

The Shore Line Trolley Museum maintains several diverse collections of equipment, photographs, documents and artifacts which preserve the history and heritage of the Trolley Era. The Museum owns nearly 100 vintage transit vehicles, and the archives contain nearly 51,000 photographic images, over 4,000 books and documents, and about 1,000 small artifacts such as tokens, hat badges and ticket punches. The vehicle collection is among the most diverse in North America both in terms of geographic reach and chronological spread.