If you want to the auction, you would have seen that it was, in fact, clearly identified as one of "those busses" you see in the picture and as non-operational.
They used the infamous picture, marking which one it was.
There were actually people who did want it. They got 23 bids in the second auction, I think more in the first one before it was pulled.
Now that I search my memory, I seem to remember the busses were worth more as salvage, so they were eventually sold in bulk.
Unfortunately for them, a schoolbus is a rather awkward collectable ... it's just too big!
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Oooh....maybe they were collectors' items as it were.
http://www.railroadforums.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/14367/ppuser/1480
In Arden, PA is one of the original "Streetcar Named Desire." (not far from where I grew up). My father was under the impression it was the only one. When I moved to New Orleans, I found out it wasn't. (There was no streetcar on Desire Street, but rather a bus, but there was a streetcar in a museum or something.) It looks like California has a couple of them as well:
http://www.streetcar.org/mim/spotlight/world/heartbreak/index.html