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N‘ â€" are ’ and had steamâ€" ‘ -men_1orabilia iBennett. neer had a lot hfow a steam en- d_ run back in the _ they did.. , days are gone nowr fitsnehnett. r runs are slowly‘but ‘y 'bein ,killed off, Beo- an ad railway hand f; said in a recent in- has recentl retired s;- real estate usiness more time to devote s largeihcollection of rare usual railway accesso- ‘biggest selection is of e‘n-‘s. lamps. They ‘ from every possible ’ of” ceiling .space in a "a1 room in his basement. Him: ' an ves are .railwa various spikes. ,latform ‘ ells. old “telegraph equip- “piece in his coi- ‘ 1865 engineer‘s A pair 0f Iipped scissors, ‘ed to trim seal oil lamp okfs, is froin about the eera. The H was sup- chtch e wick 1n ‘ , lion the floor and fire. t. 't" :shy exactly been. _collectâ€"_ 193.2 at various jobs . ' 7 'them figure; it out then! Ives." he said. $n’ginee‘rs were m char- e of r 7 " thesteam , aco- if; the Switch to diesel , Vas collected his. #“rrre’rfieurarumrgmg. A model of Canadian Pacific sh "ram is "own 'hre. Bennett ‘Korked steady feedingh the said. I mg an in” w“ s 0V9 Bennett’s had his share of after lsliiove of coal. But engi- mjlway expefiencel havng neers had the power to either :shorten or lengthen the stroke of the valve motion. That in turn governed the flow of steam to the cylinders. and of course the amount of coal 'needed. ‘ If thin ‘ri t ‘w 'Ch could draw a fireman weren't done just t. a rafi could be created worked as a timekeeper, a breakman and finally in the round house. The roundhouse was where the trains were kept alive be- fore taking off for their next run. "If you didn't keep them under steam. they died." he said, And it would take a leam locomotive No. 1247 in Elgin Bennett's CO V i ’fewhoum 'to bri ngrthemrbackfl to life. Bennett‘s father worked the railway all his life. So Ben- nett essed the railway is in his b and. He left the railway during the depression because he didn't seem much future in the business. "They were cut- ting back all the time." he 53.1 . And he never could muster up the same interest in trains ‘ ‘_~_._,_, ._ illection J 1247.- 4-6-0 model. built by the late Hugh Sipes-offlen Allen, was put together be- tween 1933 and 1947. Bennett said he‘s quit col- lecting hits and pieces of railâ€" way history. They take a lot of lookin after. And besides, he sai , "it’s like pulling teeth to get . anything today." And nobody wants to part 1 with anything. ~0noe_the diesel took over. "Steam is something that is living. They‘re temperameni tal. There aren't any two alike." he said with affection. Besides his wide array of train accessories, Bennett hau; a few old train models. Outside in his garage is kept a Great Western English train model with a left hand drive. He's not sure of its age. But his Canadian Pacific 2/“? /9