I just bought a new slide scanner and wanted to try it out. These particular slides are not very good technically, but I thought the subject matter might be of interest.
This is Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley car 504, the parlor car Talisman. After that line was abandoned, the body became a house in Indiana. Norm Krentel discovered it, and it was purchased and moved to IRM in 1993. Here we see it after it was unloaded from the trailer onto cribbing in the newly-constructed Barn 7. When you compare this forlorn wreck to the car's present appearance, it's hard to believe. Glenn Guerra certainly did an outstanding job in rebuilding this car!
And here we are jacking the car up by hand, so it can be lowered onto shop trucks.
Hey, you! Stop grinning for the camera, and work harder!
Update: And here, from the next box, are some pictures of the same car taken just four years later, in July 1997.
