Boxcar 10325

Cy A. Two Elk sent me an email stating, "I was doing some research on the web and trying to find whatever I could about this railcar I just got, when I came across your site which had some information about the car! Very interesting history and you shared a couple things I didn’t know about. Thank you for that. I moved 10325 out to our family property in Bird Creek, between Anchorage and Girdwood on the Seward Highway and will be converting it to a part of a house.   Just thought I’d share some photos with you and let you know it got moved. Thanks for what you do!"

From a previous Mike Gerenday posting:

Located way up the Hillside area of Anchorage box cars 10325 and 11753 and outfit car 1302 reside in a semi-undeveloped lot in a quiet part of the Hillside. All three cars were converted WWII Pullman Standard Troop Sleepers which the ARR hand many that were surplussed from the U.S. Army after the end of WWII. Over 2,000 troop sleepers and 400 plus kitchen cars were built. I've been told the ARR had the most surplussed troop cars out of every U.S. railroad.

10325 has the old arched lettering and was mostly intact from it's conversion minus the roof walk being removed. I have included the data sheet in a photo. Inside the car it looks like it served as a livestock barn or sorts. Sometime in the 1960s the McKinley Park Route logo was put on many box cars and continued into the 1970s so seeing a car with arched lettering is uncommon.