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Does one exist?Photos of B&LE cars ( thanks to Ed Hawkins for finding/organizing these photos):
- 50001 - 1949 Car Builder's Cyclopedia p223 (also 1953, 1957 CBCs)
- 50679 - Archives Canada
Refurbished cars
- 50645 - https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-B/i-DMZ24NC
also: https://pullman-lib.smugmug.com/Railroad-B/i-kvrLV2N
Does one exist?
From the Railway Prototype Cyclopedia #1, #4, #25, data for B&LE unless otherwise stated
Spec B&LE 50001-50500 B&LE 50501-50750 Builder Pullman-Standard Pressed Steel Car Co. Lot # 5842 ? Quantity 500 250 Build Date 10/1946 12/1946 Door Lock Wine AAR class Lt Weight Description 70 ton "non-AAR standard" 2-bay offset side hopper Cubic Cap'y 2190 Cu. Ft. Trucks Note "clasp" brakes (hangers outside wheels) Sides Note "stepped" taper (like B&M 8000 series quad hopper) rather that straight taper to car corner
ORER Size Data Description 7/1968 AAR Mechanical Designation HM Inside
DimensionsLength 33' Width 10'-4" Height Outside
DimensionsLength 36'-6" Width At Eaves or top of sides or platform 10'-5" Extreme Width 10'-5" Height
from
RailTo Extreme Width 10'-9" To Eaves or top of sides or platform 10'-9" To Top of Running Board To Extreme Height 10'-9" Door - Side
openingWidth Height Capacity Cu Ft. Level Full 2190 Pounds 154000
ORER History ORER Date
(Year-Mo.)Car
Numbers# of
CarsDescription 1968 - 07 7600-7799 200 Hopper, steel 1968 - 10 (same) 1969 - 01 (same) 1969 - 04 (same) 1969 - 07 (same) 1969 - 10 (same) 1970 - 01 (same) 1970 - 04 (same) 1970 - 07 " 196 " 1970 - 10 " 193 " 1971 - 01 (same) 1971 - 04 (same) 1971 - 07 Not listed
- Extremely short life on the B&M! (were they renumbered from/to other numbers?)
- I don't have any info (yet) on whether they were from the first, second, or both B&LE series.
- from Neubauer, Eric.Evans Products Company Freight Car Roster Notes
In the US Railway Equipment Co. records, lot 778 covers cars in this series, leased to the B&M
- From the (one) B&M photo, they seem to be 9 stakes, 2 bays (matching the photo of B&LE 50090, see below).
- B&LE 2-bay 70 ton hoppers (the source for this series of B&M hoppers)
This information was collated by Ed Hawkins, and much of it can be found in the main@RealSTMFC.groups.io list (see 18-22 Feb, 2021 thread "heavy duty trucks on B&LE hoppers")
Some additional info was provided by Ed about the same time, in personal emails and phone conversations.
70 ton capacity, 2190 cu. ft., 33' inside length cars B&LE
ClassB&LE
Car #sBuilder Lot Build
date# cars #
stakesSlope
Sheet
SupportHand
BrakeNotes HM25 50001-50500 P-S 5842 1946 500 9 Type "2B" Ajax Blaw-Knox brake step, Wine doors & locks 50501-50750 PSC 1946 250 9 Type "2B" Wine door locks HM25 photos:
P-S builder photo 50001 p. 223, 1949 CBC (also in 1953, 1957)
PSC builder photo 50679 available from Archives Canada.
After repair/refurbishment/rebuild: GSC photo of 50645 (Sep-1955)
After repair/refurbishment/rebuild: GSC photo of 50645 (Sep-1955)Note both lots are possible sources for B&M cars
From photographic evidence (such as exists), it appears:
- Exterior car stakes (9) were all "hat" section stampings
- Interior stakes were angles at ends (2) and center of car (1); and "hat" sections for the rest (6) (note the rivet patterns in the car side)
- For slope sheet support "type" definition - see the (2nd) 7000 series web page
- For truck details, also see the (2nd) 7000 series web page
Rebuilds done by GSC (Photos included above)
O.O. # cars Date Car type(s) 536 325 5-1949 HT4 (possibly others?) 545 300 7-1950 HT19 (possibly others?) 664 500 9-1955 HM25 (possibly others?) 671 244 ca. 1956 twins Abbreviations used above:
Abbreviation Full text PSC Pressed Steel Car Co. GSC Greenville Steel Car Co. O.O. Office Order (term used by GSC) CBC Car Builders' Cyclopedia P-S Pullman-Standard
Page Car # Photo Date
yr-mo-dayVisible? Markings Paint
SchemeHerald Notes 
Hawkins, Ed D. "1935 50/60-Ton AAR Two-Bay Offset Hopper - Part 3. Circa 1934-1960", Railway Prototype Cyclopedia #4 RP CYC Publishing Co., 2000 p90 (top) B&LE 50090 ca 1957 X B&LE B&LE Note trucks w/clasp brakes NERail Photo Archive
or http://photos.nerail.org/ → "By Railroad" → "Boston & Maine" →
Then scroll thru to find the photo "Concord, NH".
or try: http://photos.nerail.org/s/?p=2208817603 1971-03-27 p BM R R N
For info on modeling the clasp brake trucks, see the 7000 (2nd) series hopper cars
(although it looks like the "middle" spring is set back further than on the 7000 (2nd) series cars)
File History for THIS page Date Who Description 31-Dec-2019 KG Akerboom Initial release 02-Apr-2020 KG Akerboom Added references 04-Apr-2020 KG Akerboom Re-did references/photos section 05-May-2020 KG Akerboom Moved ORER notes into separate section 17-Jul-2020 KG Akerboom Added more info from Model Railroading article and Railway Prototype Cyclopedia #1 and #4 21-Jul-2020 KG Akerboom "Photos" table - changed "vertical" text to PNG of "sideways" text; added "Markings" columns 07- thru
16-Aug-2020KG Akerboom Added ORER data (History only, not dims or notes yet) for 63 more registers, courtesy of James Kinkaid 20-Aug-2020 KG Akerboom Added more Eric Neubauer data 06-Nov-2020 KG Akerboom Added "NE Rails" photos 20-Feb-2021 KG Akerboom Added truck modeling info (link), More data from Ed Hawkins, B&LE builder's photos 26-Feb-2021 KG Akerboom Added more info (Side stakes, slope sheet supports) on B&LE cars 30-Oct-2022 KG Akerboom Verified per [almost] complete ORER data. 04-Jan-2023 KG Akerboom Fixed headers and footers...hopefully
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