The Musée des tramways à vapeur et des chemins de fer secondaires français (Museum of French steam tramways and secondary railways — MTVS) is located alongside Valmondois railway station, in the small town of Butry-sur-Oise in the departement of Val-d'Oise, north of Paris. The museum houses a collection of railway vehicles from the former French departmental railways, preserved, restored and rebuilt by the members of an association. During the season, short trips can be made on some of the exhibits, at a separate location in the town of Crèvecoeur le Grand, along a metre gauge () line, three kilometers (1.86 miles) in length, nicknamed the "Impressionists' railway". History Established in 1976 on the site of the former railway line from Valmondois to the town of Marines, the 'Association of the Transportation Museum of the Sausseron Valley' patiently assembled a collection of railway vehicles from the old regional French networks. The collection has become the most important in France on the theme of secondary railways using the one metre gauge. It is interesting to note the museum was kickstarted by the rescue of two "tram" locomotives, n°16 and 60 seen below, abandoned in a forest, originally from the Tramways de la Sarthe in the west of France. In 1999, the association changed its name to the Musée des Tramways à Vapeur et des chemins de fer Secondaires français. In October 2006, the association celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. It was once planned for the museum to be moved further northwest, to the Vexin region, where it would have had larger storage space and a longer railway line to use for its train journeys, but the project was abandoned in March 2009. During the winter of 2007-08, the terminus of the small passenger line became inaccessible when large rocks fell onto the track. Journeys were restricted to the Rue de Parmain. Since 2013 a project is under way to transfer the museum to Crèvecœur-le-Grand, called the "Train à Vapeur du Beauvaisis", it is now the association's main activity center. Collection It operates : 11 steam engines including : Tramway de la Sarthe Nº 60, an 0-6-0 steam tram locomotive by the Ateliers du Nord de la France, Blanc-Misseron (Nº 213 of 1898), the first railway vehicle classified as a Monument historique Chemin de Fer des Côtes-du-Nord Nº 36, an 0-6-0T by Corpet-Louvet (Nº 1679 of 1925), classified as a Monument historique Tramway d'Ille