When Deary, Idaho native Isaac French‘s dad saw an abandoned train car on a neighbor’s farm, he knew there was potential for something great.
The car, built in the 1900s, had been sitting in the same spot for decades. The wood was rotting, algae was growing and there were about 20 cats living inside, French, 27, tells CNBC Make It.
Train car number 306 originally ran on the Washington Idaho & Montana Railway from 1909 until the 1950s.
It took several years, but in 2020 the family purchased the train car for just $3,000.
“[My dad] had the faith and the vision for it and I’m so glad he did,” French says. “There’s something so rewarding about taking an old structure that was so lovingly built, and breathing life back into it.”
French and his family found a photo from the day the train car was completed in 1906.
Isaac French
It also took quite a bit of time for the family to find someone willing to move the 61-feet-long structure to their 145-acre piece of land.
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