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COLLECTOR
Andrzej, how are you?
Great! Now, you're going straight
till you get to the T-shaped crossroads.
Then you turn right towards the rails
and then right again.
Park at the end the hold.
The crane is there at 6.
I'll see u there at 6.05.
Eleven years ago I have taken up black and white photography.
On this occasion,
I took my first railway picture.
This is how it all begun,
my adventure with old railway.
Then I went to railway college...
But it took me a few years
to be really bitten.
Before, it was just a hobby.
Later, it became a passion.
These are not pieces that we got from a museum,
they were all pulled out from the bushes.
There they were being demolished
and looted by people.
We managed to get them,
bring them to life,
and transport them to Jarocin.
While restoring a stream engine,
some guy came and asked
if I do it as a punishment.
People are surprised that I devote
my time and money to buy old carriages and renovate them.
For many, it's just scrap metal.
Even railway staff,
the ones you would think might understand,
thought it was waste of time
or that I tried to get some money out of it.
There is something,
that makes me respect these old carriages and steam engines.
Unlike now, they were not from a production line,
they were built by the strength of human hands.
You know what an amazing feeling
you get when you restore something,
and you face an ugly duckling being transformed into a swan.
You get the respect and the feeling that it has a soul.
That it's worth preserving it,
so that it could arouse delight in future generations.