Except for a few (very few) items that came from personal friends, I could care less who had it before I got it. Here are two examples of cars that I know their history:
1. WESTERN MARYLAND business/observation car (no photo) built by Roland Klages @1936 or so along with several other WM passenger cars while he was recovering from an operation. Roland was the treasurer of the Baltimore Society of Model Engineers for many years and after giving the treasurer's position joined the WB&A Tractioneers. I knew him from both places and got the car from his estate. My only regret now is that I did not buy any of the distinctive WM coaches and I have absolutely no idea what happened to them.
2. Three scratch-built brass B&O gondolas (two O-58 as shown and one O-60 65' mill gon) built by Tommy Arnold in1939, they are hand-lettered; note that the B&O classed these TOFC cars as gondolas because they had sides:
This one (no photo) is not from a friend but I have a four-bay VIRGINIAN hopper that has (I left it in the car, hidden by a coal load) a tag the states that it was from Ellison's "Delta lines $125.00". I fished it out of the 'bay for around $20.00 only because I wanted a different VGN hopper to go with my Weaver two-bay. Hopefully when 3rd Rail's VGN "battleship" gon gets here, I will have another different VGN hopper.
