South Pacific Coast 444

This 28-foot, 10-ton combination boxcar was built for fruit service with a dual-door system: solid wooden doors for regular use and iron bar doors for ventilation. Built for the Oregonian Railroad in 1880 as car 170, it transferred to the South Pacific Coast in 1899 as car 444, then to the Nevada & California Railway as car 426 in 1907. Set aside in the 1920s, it spent years as a farm shed near Reno before the Nevada State Railroad Museum rescued it. They declared it surplus in 1992 and gave it to us. The car is currently mounted on trucks but is non-operational due to lack of brakes.