Please note: I am certainly not trying to put them down, it was just the way it was, too much stuff and too little money. I was refering to Snoqualmie back in the early days when there was a large collection that really looked like a graveyard. Actually, it was quite a bit like Rayonier's RR Camp in the late 1960s.

They have come a long way since then. It did mean that many locos were preserved, but in about the worst possible environment, extremely wet. I suspect that many deteriorated as much in a year or two as the Kepler collection has in it's entire time. It was sad to watch and I'm very glad they are doing so well now.

Steve