There was an interesting snippet on the BBC news this morning about a Collection X.
With such an intriguing name and the phrase 'barn find' being used I watched it.
I thought it might have been a massive collection of space toys but it turned out to be a huge group of old steam locomotives hidden away in barns for fifty years.
Once the property of the late railway super collector Peter Rampton, part of the Freemans catalogue family, the trains are now being sold off and going to various rail museums including the Vale of Rheidol.
I'm not a big train enthusiast but I can appreciate the excitement the release of this lifetime's collection is generating.
There's a book on Collection X too, Narrow Gauge Enigma.
Have you a rail museums or historic railway near you?
When I was a kid there was an old train engine at a park that we used to climb all over. Here in Los Angeles, there's a huge collection of engines and cars at Griffith Park. Took my kid a long time back, but the size must've intimidated her because she wouldn't even get close.
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