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Boston & Maine 50500 Series Box Cars

Index

• Builder's Photo
• Classification Card(s) for series
• Specifications
• ORER data
• ORER Notes
• Discussion, General Notes
• Paint Schemes
• References
• Photographs
• Renumberings/Conversions/Dispositions
• Modeling
• Revision History of this page

Builder's Photo

Does one exist?

B&M Classification Card(s)

Does one exist?

Specifications From Classification Cards

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Spec	Value
Doors	From the one(!) photograph as B&M car: Appear to be "Pullman Standard" style (used on PS-1s, kind-of looks like a Superior door) with "crease" down the middle of each panel

ORER data and numbers

ORER Size Data

Description			10/1980
AAR Mechanical Designation			XP
Inside Dimensions	Length		50'-6"
	Width		9'-2"
	Height		10'-5"
Outside Dimensions	Length		54'-4"
	Width	At Eaves or top of sides or platform	9'-4" 10'-6"
		Extreme Width	10'-8"
	Height from Rail	To Extreme Width	4'-5"
		To Eaves or top of sides or platform	14'-5" 13'-7"
		To Extreme Height	15'
Door - Side opening	Width		15'
	Height		9'-9"
Capacity	Cu Ft. Level Full		4840
	Pounds		110000

ORER History

ORER Date (Year-Mo.)	Car Numbers	# of Cars	Description
1980 - 10	50500-50562	5	Box, Steel, Auto Parts
1981 - 01	Not listed

ORER Notes

Discussion, General Notes

• Talk about short-lived car series!
• from Neubauer, Eric.Evans Products Company Freight Car Roster Notes
  (also emails with Eric)

  These cars appear to have started out as Rock Island (CRI&P; RI; ROCK) cars.
  As part of USRE lot 1296-10 (delivered 1975?) they were stretched/rebuilt to 50'-6" IL cars in ?1975?
  Then as part of USRE lot 1854 (in 5/1980) they were ?refurbished and? leased (or sold?) to the B&M as their 50500-50562.

  Original RI Series	USRE lot 1296-10 RI series and info	B&M series/info
  RI 30700-30799	(70 cars) ROCK 50400-50469 (w/ 9' door)	n/a
  RI 64350-64499	(63 cars) ROCK 50500-50562 (w/ 15' door)	B&M 50500-50562 (?)
  RI 64350-64499	(27 cars) ROCK 50563-50589 (w/ 12'-3" door)	n/a??

  I am ASSUMING that only the (rebuilt) car series ROCK 50500-50562 made it to the B&M as
  - the numbers match (i.e. the B&M didn't renumber the cars)
  - the door width matches

  But USRE records indicate:
  ROCK 50500-50578, 50575-50589 to B&M 50500-50578, 50575-50589 (63 cars) in May, 1980

  It may be these were built for "Incentive per diem" use, but then the IPD was abolished about Sep, 1980, so they may have just been scrapped.
  Resolution of what went on may have to wait for B&M records to surface (assuming any exist)

Paint Schemes

References or other data

• Magazine/Book article(s)

Photographs

Page	Car #	Photo Date yr-mo-day		Visible?				Markings									Paint Scheme	Herald	Notes
Boston & Maine Railway Corporation Group on Facebook Direct link You may need to join the group to see the photo?
	50548	1980-10-02	Y	X				BM?	?	G	N	N	2V	N	N	N	Rock	Rock	double (what looks like PS-1) doors, 2 different widths

Renumberings/Conversions/Dispositions

Models

Revision History

File History for THIS page

Date	Who	Description
03-Jan-2020	KG Akerboom	Initial release
04-Apr-2020	KG Akerboom	Re-did references/photos section
05-May-2020	KG Akerboom	Moved ORER notes into separate section
21-Jul-2020	KG Akerboom	"Photos" table - changed "vertical" text to PNG of "sideways" text; added "Markings" columns
07- thru 16-Aug-2020	KG Akerboom	Added ORER data (History only, not dims or notes yet) for 63 more registers, courtesy of James Kinkaid
19-Aug-2020	KG Akerboom	Added Eric Neubauer data
20-Sep-2021	KG Akerboom	Added Facebook photo
31-Oct-2022	KG Akerboom	Verified per [almost] complete ORER data
04-Jan-2023	KG Akerboom	Fixed headers and footers...hopefully