Notes From the Past...

While removing wreckage and trash from the interior of the boxcar, a handful of notes, names, and other assorted graffiti were discovered. Time had not been kind to the majority of them, but a few were still fairly legible. The most interesting one is located on the "B" end of the car, and is as follows...

unloaded
by B P H
Ba--n-ie
Price
Hor--ris
June
13, 1921
Baker
Ore

As I said, it is relatively legible, and dates from just over a year after the number 1353 entered service on the Sumpter Valley. To preserve what does remain, we retraced the graffiti with pencil where is was still intact.