Well, back on the Riverside Railroad, I caught Hustler #1116 waiting on the mainline with a small unit train of grain hoppers with a caboose and two B&O passenger cars:
Wait a second, B&O Passenger cars and the tail end of a short switch job? The only passenger car I own is my Athearn 60th Aniversary Obsevation car. I took a picture of the train's rear, but there were indeed two B&O passenger cars tacked onto this train, as this pic comfirms:
I was pleased about this, though, as I found out that these two cars had come from the Christianson, Cynthianna & Thomasville branch of the Baltimore & Ohio RR, a layout created by my good friend John Listerman. Aparently these two cars were due for scrapping, but I'd saved them from that fate, and asked John if I could have them, and he said go ahead. Now on the RRR, these two cars are to be overhauled into excursion/comuter cars to go with my obsevation. The first car, the "Laurel Dale" is externaly in good condition, but most of her interior has long since been removed, and as such must be replaced:
The second B&O car, simply no. 3781, is unfortunently in worse condition:
Now, if I needed a run-down off-to-the-side coach waiting for scrapping, this would be a perfect canidate, with not only the interior also missing like the Lauel Dale, but half the windows on one side broken out by punks, faulty couplers, and one of the rubber diphrams probably ripped off as evidenced by the brown "rust" like patches on the visible doorway. This poor coach, probably made by Athearn from the similarities to my "Irvin R. Athearn" Observervation car seen on the right, will require an extensive teardown to even make railworthy. Once that ever happens, the coach may become Riverside Coach #3781 or remain B&O Coach #3781, but in both cases I shall rename it "John Listerman" in honor of my good friend who gave me the coaches.