Annual Membership Meeting – October 19th, 2019

The Museum of Bus Transportation would like to welcome Michael Baran Sr. as the keynote speaker for the 2019 Annual Membership Meeting This year’s meeting will be held on Saturday, October 19.

Michael began his over 50 years in the bus industry as a young child, where he began tinkering in the garage with his Dad at their family owned business, Luzerne and Carbon County Motor Transit Co. Inc.. Luzerne and Carbon County was started by Michael’s great grandfather, Wassil in 1917. His grandfather, Michael Baran, was one of the original creators of the Pennsylvania Bus Association.

Baran was the youngest person accepted to the General Motors Institute and Detroit Diesel school as a coop engineer. After GMI, Michael came back to work for the family business, where he continued to run the business until it’s closure in 2005.

In the past year and a half, Michael has been very active with the Museum Fleet Committee as a mechanic at work sessions and a driver to many of the events the Museum has attended.

We hope you will join us to hear about how the bus industry evolved during Michael’s time in the family business and his relationship with other local bus companies, such as Capitol Trailways, Martz and Wolf Bus Lines. He will also discuss how the changes over the years affected the smaller family owned bus companies.

Images from previous Membership Meetings