Iwas skeptical the first time I turned down the narrow road toward the Antique Toy and Firehouse Museum in Bangor Township. It didn’t seem there was much on the road aside from a few homes and farm fields.

For a moment, I thought my GPS was tricking me, sending me somewhere it shouldn’t. But then, on my left, at the end of a gravel drive, the place appeared: fluttering flags waved me in, a series of large red garages set back from the road, and a hulking antique firetruck was parked out front. This, I thought, was it.

Everywhere inside, there were fire helmets, hoses, toys, and trucks, both the kind a child might push across a living room floor and the kind that once roared down New York City streets with sirens piercing the night. The museum claims to hold the world’s largest collection

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