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Boston & Maine RR Early (1885-1893) 514 "Random Numbered" Flat 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

In the table below:

• A "Y" indicates the car(s) are listed (but no count supplied)
• A number indicates the count of those cars (if listed)
• A Bold number (or range) indicates the number range changed
• A blank cells mean the car(s) is not listed
• another car type indicates the car type changed in that issue of the ORER, and further info is to be found in that "other" car type page

ORER History

In "Freight Equipment" table of Boston & Maine RR listing Car description is "Platform, Long"
ORER Date (Year-Mo.)	514,517	520-522	524,526	528	531-534	536	538-539	541-543	636	653-670	672-681
1885 - 06	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
1885 - 07	(same) (all 11 columns)
1885 - 08	(same) (all 11 columns)
1885 - 09	(same) (all 11 columns)
1885 - 10	(same) (all 11 columns)
1885 - 11	(same) (all 11 columns)
1885 - 12	(same) (all 11 columns)
1886 - 01	(same) (all 11 columns)
1886 - 02	(same) (all 11 columns)
1886 - 03	(same) (all 11 columns)
1886 - 04	(same) (all 11 columns)
1886 - 05	(same) (all 11 columns)
1886 - 06	(same) (all 11 columns)
1886 - 07	(same) (all 11 columns)
1886 - 08	(same) (all 11 columns)
1886 - 09	(same) (all 11 columns)
1886 - 10	(same) (all 11 columns)
1886 - 11	(same) (all 11 columns)
1886 - 12	(same) (all 11 columns)
1887 - 01	(same) (all 11 columns)
1887 - 02	(same) (all 11 columns)
1887 - 03	(same) (all 11 columns)
1887 - 04	(same) (all 11 columns)
1887 - 05	(same) (all 11 columns)
1887 - 06	(same) (all 11 columns)
1887 - 07	(same) (all 11 columns)
1887 - 08	(same) (all 11 columns)
1887 - 09	(same) (all 11 columns)
1887 - 10	(same) (all 11 columns) [*]
1887 - 11	(same) (all 11 columns) [*]
1887 - 12	(same) (all 11 columns) [*]
1888 - 01	(same) (all 11 columns) [*]
1888 - 02	(same) (all 11 columns)
1888 - 03	(same) (all 11 columns)
1888 - 04	(same) (all 11 columns)
1888 - 05	(same) (all 11 columns)
1888 - 06	(same) (all 11 columns)
1888 - 07	(same) (all 11 columns)
1888 - 08	(same) (all 11 columns)
1888 - 09	(same) (all 11 columns)
1888 - 10	(same) (all 11 columns)
1888 - 11	(same) (all 11 columns)
1888 - 12	(same) (all 11 columns)
1889 - 01	(same) (all 11 columns)
1889 - 02	(same) (all 11 columns)
1889 - 03	(same) (all 11 columns)
1889 - 04	(same) (all 11 columns)
1889 - 05	(same) (all 11 columns)
1889 - 06	(same) (all 11 columns)

Car Nos.	514,517	520-522	524	526-529	531-534	536	538-539	541-543	653-670	672-681
1889 - 07	2	3	1	4	4	1	2	3	18	10
1889 - 08	(same) (all 10 columns)
1889 - 09	(same) (all 10 columns)
1889 - 10	(same) (all 10 columns)
1889 - 11	(same) (all 10 columns)
1889 - 12	(same) (all 10 columns)
1890 - 01	(same) (all 10 columns)
1890 - 02	(same) (all 10 columns)
1890 - 03	(same) (all 10 columns)
1890 - 04	514,516-517(3)	519-542(24)							18	10
1890 - 05	3	24							18	672-682(11)
1890 - 06	(same) (all 4 columns)
1890 - 07	(same) (all 4 columns)
1890 - 08	(same) (all 4 columns)
1890 - 09	(same) (all 4 columns)
1890 - 10	3	519-532(14)				534-542(9)			18	11
1890 - 11	(same) (all 5 columns)
1890 - 12	(same) (all 5 columns)
1891 - 01	(same) (all 5 columns)
1891 - 02	(same) (all 5 columns)
1891 - 03	(same) (all 5 columns)
1891 - 04	(same) (all 5 columns)
1891 - 05	(same) (all 5 columns)
1891 - 06	(same) (all 5 columns)
1891 - 07	(same) (all 5 columns)
1891 - 08	(same) (all 5 columns)
1891 - 09	(same) (all 5 columns)
1891 - 10	(same) (all 5 columns)
1891 - 11	(same) (all 5 columns)
1891 - 12	(same) (all 5 columns)
1892 - 01	(same) (all 5 columns)
1892 - 02	(same) (all 5 columns)
1892 - 03	(same) (all 5 columns)
1892 - 04	(same) (all 5 columns)
1892 - 05	(same) (all 5 columns)
1892 - 06	(same) (all 5 columns)

Car description changes to "Flat"
Car Nos.	514	517	520-522	524	526-529	531-534		536	538-543	653-670	672-681
1892 - 07	1	1	3	1	4	3		1	6	18	10
1892 - 08	1	1	3	1	3	531-532(2)	534	1	6	17	8
1892 - 09	(same) (all 11 columns)
1892 - 10	1	1	3	1	3	2	1	1	6	17	672-679(7)	681
1892 - 11	(same) (all 12 columns)
1892 - 12	(same) (all 12 columns)
1893 - 01	(same) (all 12 columns)
1893 - 02	(same) (all 12 columns)
1893 - 03	(same) (all 12 columns)
1893 - 04	(same) (all 12 columns)
1893 - 05	1	1	3	1	3	2		1	6	17	7
1893 - 06	(same) (all 12 columns)
1893 - 07	(same) (all 12 columns)
1893 - 08	(same) (all 12 columns)
1893 - 09	(same) (all 12 columns)
1893 - 10	(same) (all 12 columns)

In "Freight Equipment in old series" table of Boston & Maine RR listing
Car Nos.	515-667
1893 - 11	5
1893 - 12	(same)
1894 - 01	(same)
1894 - 02	[to 436-667, see that series]

ORER Notes

[*] (1887-10 to 1888-01)

[Added by me, not in ORERs]

Typos for the following groups:
541-543 mis-identified as 541-443
653-670 mis-identified as 653-570

Discussion, General Notes

Paint Schemes

References or other data

• Magazine/Book article(s)

Photographs

Renumberings/Conversions/Dispositions

Models

Revision History

File History for THIS page

Date	Who	Description
22-Apr-2023	KG Akerboom	Initial release
21-May-2023	KG Akerboom	Back-filled 1886-03 data that was missing
07-Jun-2023	KG Akerboom	Back-filled missing 1886-10 data