Baggage cars 1930 and 1940s

[Deggesty]

I do not know if procedures in the thirties were any different from those in the fifties and later, but I never saw that the end door of a baggage car was locked. As to the handling of caskets, they were carried to the  baggage cars on the baggage wagons, and loaded just as the checked baggage was loaded.

[Rgtriplec]

I know very little about train travel. I am curious how coffins/caskets were transported in the 1930s to 1940s. Also, would the car they were in have been accessible by passengers? I recently read in a biography that an 8-year-old on a cross country, coast to coast, trip. Would exit the coach car at every stop and enter the car where his mother's coffin was to check that it was still aboard. As I said I know little about trains, but that seems a little unlikely to me. I would have thought baggage cars with end doors would have been locked. Also, wouldn't outer doors have been too high for a child that small to access and open? I wouldn't think baggage cars would have been on the platform when the coach cars were. Just seems like an unlikely scenario.