The photo of the green bunk car in Bill Pollard’s last post was taken at the museum in Atchison, KS. They used to go by the Northeast Kansas Railroaders moniker. But, there have been some ownership changes and the local Chamber of Commerce seems to have control of the full size rolling stock. The former group was using this car as a workshop for maintenance of the miniature train that they run next to this facility.

The interesting thing about this photo, at least for me, is the position of the photographer when he snapped the picture. Unless this is a fairly recent photo, he would have been standing near the end of my caboose, MP 13569.

As for the 30304 number, I think this is a UP renumbering of some sort. Due to age and other factors, it has to be in non-revenue service.