The North Carolina Transportation Museum has and displays the NC "40 and 8" car.  It was restored by the 40 and 8 society including the shields.  We have some of the data on the restoration, including vendors.

Thom Rhodes
Executive Director, NCTM

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You may want to contact the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe. (Ask for
Charles Bennett.) I think the Palace was involved with restoration of a
boxcar that was a gift of France to each state in the United states
following WW2, but I cannot remember what those cras were called.

John Arnold
Public Information Officer
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
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Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104
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