Train car number 306 originally ran on the Washington Idaho & Montana Railway from 1909 until the 1950s. It took several years, but in 2020 the family purchased the train car for just $3,000.

French and his family found a photo from the day the train car was completed in 1906. It also took quite a bit of time for the family to find someone willing to move the 61-feet-long structure to ...