B&M 50500 Box Cars

Boston & Maine 50500 Series Box Cars

Index

Builder's Photo

Does one exist?

B&M Classification Card(s)

Does one exist?

Specifications From Classification Cards

?

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