B&MRRHS Home

B&M Freight Cars Home

Fitchburg RR 2900 Series "Charcoal" Cars

Index

• Builder's Photo
• 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?

ORER data and numbers

ORER History

ORER Date (Year-Mo.)	Car Numbers	# of Cars	Description
In "Fitchburg Division - Freight Equipment" table of Boston & Maine RR listing Note "Above cars are being relettered and re-numbered in Boston & Maine series" "The number of cars in service is included in proper series of Boston & Maine cars
1901 - 01	2900	…	Charcoal
1901 - 02	(same)
1901 - 03	(same)
1901 - 04	(same)
1901 - 05	Not listed

ORER Notes

Discussion, General Notes

Paint Schemes

References or other data

• Magazine/Book article(s)

Photographs

Renumberings/Conversions/Dispositions

Information from Descriptive Inventory of Cars Belonging to the Fitchburg Railroad June 30, 1900"

Renumbered from this series to B&M 26950 Series Charcoal cars

For the "Notes" column: "D" indicates (I think) "Destroyed", sometimes with a date.
"DoR" / "DR" = Destroyed or Retired?
For the "Trucks" column: Dia. = Diamond Archbar?

Page	FRR #	B&M Car #	Notes	Class	Length	Capacity	Trucks	Brake	Built	Remarks	Price
14	2900	26993		Charcoal	33'	45000	Dia.	Air	No Record	General Repairs 3-1898	$ 156.00

Models

Revision History

File History for THIS page

Date	Who	Description
14-Mar-2023	KG Akerboom	Initial release
30-May-2023	KG Akerboom	Cleaned up some data
28-Jun-2025	KG Akerboom	Added "Descriptive Inventory of Cars Belonging to the Fitchburg Railroad June 30, 1900" data
26-Jul-2025	KG Akerboom	Added summary of cars leased by B&M (based on "Descriptive Inventory ... 1900" data)