Later I bought a No. 710 Cities Service tank car and No. 761 Union Pacific boxcar at the same train store. My favorite two cars remain the ones I bought first, the PRR boxcar and the Wabash hopper.

The Merci Train boxcar was built in France between 1893 and 1895 and used in WWI to transport troops and supplies. The boxcar was discovered in a Tennessee field by officials with the National WWI ...