Oops..sorry...I did not realize that was your posting, as I scanned back through. Certainly, anything was possible when it comes to hammering together rolling stock in short line or remote shops (think Galloping Goose), or that weird loco the San Luis Southern ginned up (wish I could post that photo). But in that vein, finding a body and swapping out the trucks for (hoped for) better tracking would be within most RIP track capability, vs. finding porthole windows for a body built in Alaska from the ground up. The Unit-Stanleys, like, apparently all of the steam coaches, were not successful, so it is interesting that they repowered a McKeen with one of the engines, although repowering and modifying McKeens with diesel (and maybe "distillate", whatever that is) engines seems to have been standard operating procedure. This is what I like about shortline railroading of the past, all of the interesting "critters" they devised.
