The Yardley and Hillton RR like most railroads got out of the passenger hauling business after everyone got automobiles. Passenger service by this time had diminished to just a single combined passenger/baggage/caboose on the daily except Sunday mixed train.
Here is a photo of what may have been the last passenger train to leave Hillton. The lucky photographer happened to be in town on this historic occasion. Somehow he was able to get to both sides of the tracks here at the towns passing siding.
This view shows the other side of the train. This Mantua caboose is unusual in that it has received minor bashing to relocate the cast metal cupola by Silver Streak, from over the side door (an impossible location for a cupola). Cover the opening in the roof with card stock from cupola to end. I should have weathered the trucks and painted the truss rods because by being black they tend to disappear in the shadows beneath the car.
Model Railroading on the Cheap 
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