In the image Chuck posted the car wears faded mineral red paint, and while there are indications (on the roof at the front end) this this paint might have been applied after the car was placed in building service at Canton (if in fact that's where the photo was taken), there are more indications (especially on the roof ventilators above the coach section) that the mineral red dates to the Q era. Several of these converted PMCs were painted mineral red ( I have a slide of 3651 in red ) when their assignment called for their use primarily as a waycar. In later years, nearly all of them were used primarily as waycars, and none of them were repainted after their conversion into trailers at Havelock. Bear in mind that a good many combines used primarily as waycars were painted mineral red, including a number of the steel-sheathed 3530 series cars and many of the older wooden cars. And of course all the 3900 series CW class cars were mineral red. The fact that the car was still on trucks in 1980 indicates to me that it was one of the three cars that were still around when BN was formed in 1970, and BN used mineral red for company service equipment, so the car could have been painted this way in the BN era and faded to the extent shown in the photo by 1980. I just dug out the diagram sheets for these cars, and the window and door configuration perfectly matches the 3659, which was converted in 1952 from the 9843.

Adding to Hol's information is the following from R. W. 'Bud' Linroth confirming the location:

I have a personal knowledge about this car as I knocked it off the track sometime in the late 1970's. It was the crew locker room/office/supply car. It was located on a short storage stub track down near the International Harvester plant right next to the plant lead. We had just spotted the plant and were reaching in on the stub track to get one car to set it over on a short track on the side of the plant called South Maple. I took the two-unit consist over to the switch, lined it for the stub track and gave the engineer an easy back up sign (we had just passed the car coming out of the plant so the engineer knew it was just in the clear of the plant lead). To make a long story short, the engineer put the engines in reverse and leaned over to put his coffee cup in his grip and did not see me washing out as the engines were coming back too fast. I ran out wide flagging down just in time to see the engines hit the box car. The engines hit the coupler so hard the pin did not drop and the car took off and ran down the stub track about five cars lengths and hit the coach knocking the rear half off of the end of the track. Later the coach was moved about 1½ miles south to where we called two tracks cleaning tracks 1 and 2. These tracks are where the empty box cars for the International plant were stored. It was placed on a couple pieces of panel rail where nobody could hit it again. The power poles in the background of the picture verify this location. No one received any discipline for this incident and the coach/car was not damaged. The only real loss was the afternoon job's conductor had his coat hanging over the stove and the collision knocked it down on the stove where we found it well done. Bud Linroth ex-Canton Road switcher brakeman.