I have been researching real estate classifieds over the past few months and have found probably two hundred listings, where someone is selling some property, which just happens to have a caboose or passenger or other car, or a former(usually relocated) depot on it.

Of course one has to wade through alot of boxcars out there, used as storage, although some may be historic items. With the cabooses, I have been dealing with them via the caboose yahoogroup. The depots will be passed on to the RRSHS(www.rrshs.org). I would, however, like to pass on some listings that some of you may be able to identitfy.

Here are some examples. I will add to the list from time to time.

20510 B Dr North, Marshall, MI 49068
http://listings.listhub.net/pages/SWMRI ... econdspace
Property has 1930's train car. Can't get a good look via Bing Birdseye.

3523 Route 22
Readington Twp., NJ 08876-3457
Looks like two heavyweight cars at former restaurant
http://www.prudentialnewjersey.com/102093904

112 W 4th, Taylor, TX 76574
Another heavyweight at a restaurant
http://listings.listhub.net/pages/ABORT ... econdspace

River Ridge Rd, Summit, MS
Streamlined car on the ground with a brick chimney attached. Used as a camp.
http://www.landandfarm.com/property/196 ... pi-486744/

Two Erie Stillwells

The one in Michigan has radius'd ends and a sliding door. Possible steel Freight motor or trailer?

Ted.

REALLY? Back thirty or so years ago, when we were moving Michigan Electric 28 out of Albion, we knew there was a MERR freight trailer body in Marshall, in fact, Norm Krental and I found it and looked it over. A couple years later it was gone, and we figured it was scrapped. Might be the same trailer moved out of town, or a different one.

Re: Marshall, MI

Real estate agent sent me a photo of 1930 "train car". It does look like some kind of trailer:

http://tinyurl.com/cgsyba8

I hope the link works. I couldn't figure out how to post the photo directly on here.

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This one is not a relic but a gem. I hope somebody buys it and makes it into something useful:

http://www.landwatch.com/San-Miguel-Cou ... /246073436

Its only $1.3 million.

Taylor, Texas would be an old Southern Railway modernized heavyweight dining car. Probably a pretty nice old car depending on the level of bastardization that the restaurant has imposed upon it. There were several of these that were sold by SR to Dave Wallace back in the day and went to Texas. Four would be the number that seems to stick in my mind.

The Mississippi car looks like one of the IC modernized heavyweight RPOs. At a glance it looks rock solid -- a trait those IC cars were known for. Shame the trucks appear to be MIA.

ETA

50 Fourth Ave, Iron River, MI

http://listings.point2.com/1159935446/

Long Island commuter coach, not a rarity, but I guess a relic just the same.

Its doesn't appear well on Google, but at the North End of Riverside & Great Northern in the Wisconsin Dells there is a EJ&E Biz Car that's been converted to a cabin. It was for sale a couple of years back.

Sold in the past few years was this bit of farmland: http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=42.219 ... orm=LMLTCC
The rotted remains of a Milwaukee RD reefer were found on the property...

..the buyer, you ask? Zoom out and look to the northwest!

Jeff

Ah, yes! Another piece added to IRM's buffer zone. Smart cookies, those IRM fellows. Their successors will be glad they bought these parcels in another 20-30 years.

Thanks!

The recently sold (or donated) Ossawippi Express Dining Cars in Orillia, Ontario. The cars are being divided amongst two or three groups and will be removed from the property (city owned) within the next couple of months. http://youtu.be/FVH1S-J-eVg

You just never know what you're going to run into. There's a lot of stuff out there conveted to structures and outbuildings.

We found a streetcar converted into a camp WAY back out in the woods in Forest County, PA, on Little Hickory Rd.

There's one proven wooden caboose used as a camp on Blue Jay Road, just up from the Rt. 666, also in Forest Co, siding and cupola intact.

Edinboro, PA has a mid-town restaurant that started as a streetcar and still looks it today - Lake Erie & Western...
http://dinerhunter.com/2008/09/14/cross ... inboro-pa/

The oddest one we ever got called in on was a PRR bobber caboose used as a pool cabana in Philadelphia, by a PRR/PC executive. It ended up (in pieces) at the RMPA.

There's an ex-NYC steel bay window floating around Warren County, PA - started as an ice-cream stand on Rt. 6 near Lottsville, that got sold off, I inspected it and it was still in good shape, railroad client and property seller couldn't make the deal, it ended up as a restaurant addition called "Legends" near Warren. May now be possibly the all-time ugliest and/or tackiest caboose conversion ever, inside and out. Just avert your eyes, sort of like staring into the solar eclipse: http://www.legends.dinerz.com/

Chesterton, IN with 4 South Shore cars

http://listings.listhub.net/pages/GNIAR ... econdspace

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You can buy a Florida condo where part of your clubhouse is IC's obs car BAMBOO GROVE

http://listings.listhub.net/pages/DBAAR ... econdspace

The rumor mill has it an early South Shore (CLS&SB) powered coach after retirement went to a south Bend restaurant, but I can find no traces of it, but I contacted the -presumed- restaurant owners, they often had street car bodies placed inside their restaurants (multi-restaurant owner) or they did a mockup of one , the South Shore car possibly another project to -restarantize it, but any hard evidence of it has been elusive. Sister car was stored in the South Bend yard and a local model railroad club built an O scale layout in it, members went off to WW2, came back with its trucks removed, bent the layout a bit, they decided to exit the layout from the car, the car moved as a diner near the airport, a fire finished it.

There actually IS a CLS&SB wood passenger car still in existance! Bob Harris owns it and has been slowly having it restored somewhere in downstate Illinois. I don't know if that is the diner you were thinking of; this one was part of a house I believe. I think the number was CLS&SB #73 but perhaps I have that wrong. As I recall, the car survived into the CSS&SB era as the railroad's line car. It was later replaced by number 1100, and then became part of the house previously mentioned. Corrections to any of these facts are certainly welcome!

Les