Barney & Smith Passenger Car 563 was built in 1883 by the Barney and Smith Car Company of Dayton, Ohio, a firm that produced premier railroad passenger cars from 1848 to about 1894, then electric trolley cars for the next 20 years before struggling to convert from wood to steel and closing in 1921 after 73 years, a loss that devastated Dayton. At its peak the company employed over 3,500 workers in a plant covering 59 acres. The car is primarily a wooden rail car on a steel truss undercarriage with eight steel straps over the top. It originally had an all-wood interior, though steel plates were later installed in some places to cover much of the wood inside and out. It has 30 sliding windows, and its clerestory once held 28 long narrow etched glass windows for light and ventilation before they were removed and the openings covered with metal. During restoration, one original clerestory window was found in a hidden cavity and used as the pattern for new nonfunctional panels representing its 1883 appearance. The car now has 26 bench seats, two wood stoves, and two restrooms, though it originally had more seats, only one restroom, and no heat; the stoves were likely added in the early 1900s. Its innovative walk-over seats allowed the conductor to reverse the seat backs to face the direction of travel, while passengers could also arrange them to face one another. The car is one of the last remaining Jim Crow cars still in existence, with an interior divider near the middle and a restroom and wood stove at each end. In the early 1900s, a divider and paint scheme were added to enforce Jim Crow laws passed in the late 1800s: white passengers rode on the beige side and black passengers on the red and yellow side, even though this car provided the same accommodations on both sides and had no fixed front or back because it could be pulled in either direction. The car was never electrified, suggesting it was likely removed from service long before 1955, when it was brought to Rolla, Missouri. It originally used four ceiling light brackets holding two kerosene lanterns each, and restoration found places where the lanterns had burned holes through the roof and the damage had been patched with metal signs or scrap wood; the electric lights now in the car are modern additions, while the locomotive's generator and electric lights came from a locomotive built 40 years later.