Re: Far West narrow gauge *LINK*

The body of C&C/SP business car #10 (named "Esmeralda" by the SP) is actually located inside the building. Lacking trucks it and the ex-SPC/SP coach #39 are up on cribbing. Esmeralda has been inside since the building was completed.
The building was funded by the Kimballs with OERM members doing the electrical, the fire sprinklers, the trim, and other work as a match to the purchase of the steel frame and roof. The siding is a fireproofed processed wood product.
Grizzly Flats coach #5 is originally C&C coach #5 built in 1881 by Barney & Smith. While the coach seating has changed over the years, its interior wood work is still intact. It is probably one of the most intact cars from its era.
None of the narrow gauge cars were ever at Travel Town in Griffith Park, Los Angeles. One of the SP stock cars suffered from years hauling livestock in the desert and then from the lawn sprinklers at the Kimballs. We moved it when Ward wondered why were spending the efforts to brace it up.
The SP box car was transfered to OERM by Kern County and the Kern County Museum.
One of the gons and the ex-N-C-O stock car were at the Tropico gold mine near Rosamond, Calif., before purchased by friends of the Museum and gifted to the Museum.
The cupola of West Side Lumber Co caboose #7 just barely clears the angle cut of the building doors.
The Rio Grande cars generally live outside the building with the equipment from California and Nevada protected inside.
Brian Norden