During the years of 1999 to 2001, I was employed as a delivery truck driver for a company in Romeoville Illinois. One Springtime day during the year of 2000, I discovered what appeared to be a collection of antique city transit buses on an industrial storage lot at Illinois U.S Route # 53 and Caton Farm Road in Cresthill Illinois. I went there after work to take a closer look that day, and met the museum president Dave Buzek working on some of these old buses. He gave Me a guided tour, and the next thing I knew...I was a member of the Midwest transit Bus Museum from 2000 to 2002. The Midwest Transit Bus Museum, is a collection of vintage transit buses owned by a group of individuals. Some of these operate, and some don't as some were rescued from junk yards minus many parts. Some were used as storage sheds.
Here I am at the September 2000 Members Weekend at the museum, driving this 1950
General Motors 40 foot transit bus, from the West Towns Bus Company. ( pre Pace.)
I drove this bus under supervision of a professional bus driver who was a member.
West Towns Bus Company # 776, was occasionally being used in local Chicago area parades and special occasions. One of them being the anual Berwyn Houby Day Parade.
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