I can’t say if it is the original wood in the roof. After this many years, I would doubt it. However, this is the original style. Also, you have not been completely misinformed. Combine #211 has had the whole roof replaced with a steel roof of different design. Because of this, many of our own SVRy people believe that ALL the SVRy coaches where change in this maner. However, as you can see, that is not the case.
The nice thing about the 211 is that it still has it’s baggage door and original window spacing that it had on the SVRy.