If you love both classic rock candy and miniature locomotives , have we got an auction sale for you . Canadian rock icon Neil Young is auctioning off some of his personal belongings , and the band includes some of his treasured model train collection , include train controller devices he invented himself .
Fans of his music may not realise it , but Young has been an obsessional modelling geartrain buff since childhood . grant toGibson.com , he got his first train set up at geezerhood 5 , and continue to expand his set in his family ’s basement well into his teens ( despite the shocks he would get from pass the geartrain after the basement flooded during rainstorms ) .
As an grownup , he poured his musical fortune into building up a monumental collection of rare modeling and produce a sprawling rail arrangement at home , which he used to bond with his son , Ben , who has intellectual palsy . He finally bought out the large toy wagon train company Lionel , becoming a model gearing titan in his own right . He also invented controls that were easy for Ben to use , make a digital organization that can ascertain 99 string at the same time .
Some pieces from Young ’s huge gearing collection will go on sale from Julien ’s auction bridge in Los Angeles on December 9 , give fans a chance to own a few pieces of both euphony and model train chronicle . Some of the prototypes and trains on cut-rate sale are worth up to $ 15,000 . Some , like the HORDE Tour Psychedelic Vanderbilt Hudson locomotive , Young even fetch on tour with him . ( In one instance , Sonic Youth cobalt - founder Kim Gordonremembershim obsessively tinkering with a poser cow to make it “ moo ” more realistically during dinner party while they were on duty tour together in 1991 . ) Many of the trains are rare models that number from the Lionel archives , and some feature typewritten detail about them by Young . One tradition - paint train is even bless by Young .
The auction also have slightly - less - dweeby items , like Young ’s guitar and classic railcar , if that ’s more your velocity . you’re able to condition all the batch outhere .
