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I think I solved the mystery! Looking at my own Hiawatha I noticed the top and bottom are attache to the body with screws. If you look at the City of Portland, every car need a vestibule because it attaches to the diesel electric just like the other cars. But the head end car on the Hiawatha is attached to a tender so it needs an end cap. I'm told all pride line cars have a Pride line stamp on the bottom. This baggage car does not. I think my friend got hold of a Pride Lines Baggage car, switched top, bottom and end cap of a Lionel with the Pride Lines body and only had to paint the body to match the Hiawatha train. He was a good tin plate painter. That would explain why there is no Pride Line stamp on the bottom. The Pride lines baggage does have different window on each side. Maybe that's how it happened, and maybe not. Don