Includes four passenger cars, all of which have been discussed several times in various "heavyweight survivors" and other passenger car threads here over the years by "Ranier Rails" and others:

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog ... on-museum/

The usual "I have no financial interest in this" disclaimer, yadda yadda yadda......

A web page for someone else's visit in July 2020:
https://hawkinsrails.net/preservation/hsmt/hsmt.html

I will note that this is one private "museum" that stayed off the radar--never listed in Kalmbach's Tourist Trains Guidebook or the predecessor Steam Passenger Service Directory as far as my quick check shows. (Well, for that matter, neither is nearby Youngstown Steel Heritage's J&L demo railway....) The "station" is a replica of no particular design, and the "collection" is truly a random bunch of clutter, including even some old British signs and a replica(?) British diesel nameplate........



Good luck, wannabe rail barons.......

They certainly had a diverse collecting policy!
That "Warship" nameplate might be a genuine one as I remember seeing one off the original (D600s) batch on the wall of the "Victoria Station" restaurant in Denver, CO, back in the early 1980s.
Those locos were being withdrawn about the time that chain started buying a lot of UK railwayana for their restaurants so would have been readilly available for purchase. The "Claydon" maroon station sign most probably came from the same source (and the SR target style station one as well).

I expect the Irish cast iron Great Southern & Western 'Ormsby' trespass sign (Lot 0434) is a replica, or what might be better described as an outright fake. I've seen multiple examples of this design on the market in the US (and even own one myself!), but it doesn't correspond with known genuine examples of GS&WR lineside signs which feature top and bottom attachment lugs rather than corner screw holes (see discussion at https://www.lennan.eu/New%20folder/pa306.htmand compare with genuine https://www.lennan.eu/pa104b.htm). Furthermore, the casting is very rough and the (misplaced) screw holes appear to be unreamed.

-Philip Marshall