RAILWAY PICTURES

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 107, 2 November 1933, Page 13

RAILWAY PICTURES

A UNIQUE COLLECTION

(From "The Post's" Special Reporter.) PALMEESTCN N., This Day. One of many striking exhibits to be found in the No. 1 industrial hall at the Manawatu A. and P. Show Grounds is a collection of railway photographs, paintings, and lithographs, the property of Mr. S. Fahey, of the Railway Department, Palmcrston North. Tho collection is unique, and the pictures, neatly framed, being exhibited right at the entrance to tho hall, have claimed much attention. ' Mr. Fahey has made the collection of railway pictures a hobby, and over the past eight to ten years ho has amassed a large number. The pictures ho has on exhibition—about 150 of them all told—featuro mostly British, European, and American locomotives and trains. There is a series of eight paintings, recognised as the finest series of train paintings in existence, featuring the 20th Century Limited Train, running between New York and Chicago. The railage distance between New York and Chicago is 916 miles, and during the Chicago Fair, said Mr. Fahey, this train cut out the distance in 175 hours. Giving added interest to the pictures is a'3ft Gin model of a locomotive, the work of Dr.' Stowe, Palmerston North, who is a very keen model enthusiast. Mr. Fahey said that not only had he collected the pictures as a hobby but, 1 being a railway man, also from an cdu-1 cations! point of Tiew. Thcro ■ were no duplicates of the eight big paintings | in New Zealand, he said, and probably 1 not in Australia either. In addition to the photographs, paintings, and litho- j graphs, there are also on view some in- 1 teres'fing international railway posters.