Alaska Railroad Mud Car 37

Used for transporting troops across the country during WWII but did not get scrapped at the end of the war. Instead, it was used on the Alaska Railroad to transport and house the maintenance of way crew and their supplies. About the time these railcars were retiring, a lady by the name of Tanya Sandefur won a bid for four pieces of railcars. Two eighty-foot railcars and two fifty-two foot one happened to be this mud car. She had them put in her boatyard in Seward. Mr. and Mrs. Sandefur got to work getting the railcars cleaned out and restored for business in 1995. This car was turned into a deli at the time. In 2021, a man by the name of Liberty Miller purchased the property and turned this car into The Smoke Shack and had it in business until 2024 when the property was sold to the Seward Harbor 360 Hotel, and car 37 was sold off to a lodge in Moose Pass.