The restored "carriage" is one of the last used horse-drawn Montgomery County school buses. It was used to shuttle students to school bus routes until its retirement from official bus routes in 1922. It was then commissioned to carry the students residing on Mullinix Mill Road from their houses to the bus stop on Route 108 in Damascus, where the motorized bus would pick them up for the remainder of their journey. The bus was typically pulled by two horses and a mule, and the wheels sunk in, the children riding the bus would have to climb out to lighten the load for the wind, rain and snow, and roll down to keep out of the wind, rain and snow, and down to keep out of the only other method of heat for the cold or inclement weather. The bus from home by the children was heated bricks.