[Yo-Yo]

Montoya said he wants to restore the boxcar in the future but he's still trying to figure that out. His best guess for how the boxcar got turned into a home? He said maybe it got derailed and people just built around it – which was pretty common back then.

If that were the case then the wheel carriages would still be intact.

No, somebody either bought or found the boxcar and moved it to the site and put it on a foundation.

[bgill]

Hard to imagine someone not noticing over time what their house was built from.

[Vermont Lt]

People make living spaces out of containers every day. They are nothing but a modern version of a box car.

[sheana]

I lived in Bakersfield. Merle Haggards home in the Dale started as a boxcar. I also know of another home on a farm where it’s obvious one of the bedrooms is a boxcar. Probably started as the boxcar and then built around it. It’s not that unusual.