An old AHM boxcar and an old Mantua boxcar , that has been shopped to replace the wheel sets, add KD couplers, and get my RR's colors on them. with a Mantua boxcar, that has been converted into a caboose.
The seven cars to the left were all traded for recently, and shopped to look as much as possible like the two on the right which have been in service on my RR for 45 years or more.
In the massive trade I made, there were three Mantua 1880 combines. I had just got done painting three Mantua 1880 combines in my caboose colors, and did not have a need for three more. I cut two of them in half, and spliced the bagage portion together to make this unique baggage car, and glued the passenger portions together to make this coach, so instead of three combines, I have a baggage car, a combine, and a coach, an interesting train, shown here behind #6, which started life as an NWSL Sierra # 18, but was back dated with an oil headlamp, a wood burning stack, and a wood cab. shown here on the Westernmost crossing of Crooked Creek.