Model Railroader Silver Anniversary Car

My Dad collected this car in 1959. Since it is now 85 years and counting I thought it might like to show off. Here it sits on my New Haven branch, next to a Railway Design Associates cast plaster tower and a scratch built shed from a plan by Harold Russell in MR. The New Haven sent a train out to pick it up, but the conductor couldn't figure out how to couple the Kadees to the Mantua hook and loop!