I'm really happy to see the 163 preserved and safely on the C&TS. Yes, that is one of the cars I located several years ago. It was actually the second baggage car that my Dad and I located, although the 163 appeared to be in significantly better shape. We had hoped to be able to get both cars in good homes, but, it will probably never happen for the other car unfortunately. But, that still puts 3 preserved out of the 8 San Juan cars, so not bad I suppose.
The 163 was out on a farm west of Hooper near Center along with two boxcars. It looked like it hadn't been used for anything for some time as it was further back on the owners property, and the interior looked just as in Dave's photos, empty and still with a lot of the original paint visible on the interior. By the time my Dad and I had worked our way up to that part of the valley, we hadn't seen anything interesting for some time as most of the NG cars are further south, so it was quite a nice surprise to find it.
Bob Richardson had told me that when they brought the 168 to the CRRM back in 1960 that there had been a second baggage car on the same property in what he described as Saguache county and both had been used for worker housing. The 163 was just a couple miles south of the county line if I remember right, so I've always wondered if it was the second car that they had decided not to acquire, but I guess we may never know.
Don Shank's car, the 165, was not one of my finds though. My guess is that it was somewhere around Monte Vista as that car appeared around the time we were scouring the valley, but there were a few roads that we didn't get to around that area of the valley (I suspect that he found the old SLC caboose/coach in the same area as we didn't see that one either).