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I don't know if a B&M diagram exists, but the NYNH&H class diagram is available at:
"The Alphabet Route" web site (click on the "17500 - 17799" link - NOT the "17500 - 17534" link)
It appears the B&M also leased some NH 17800-17899 series cars (Photos show they are in use 23-Jun-1959)
The NYNH&H class diagram is available at:
"The Alphabet Route" web site (click on the "17800 - 17899" link)
Specifications From Classification Cards
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ORER data and numbers
ORER Size Data
Description
1/1953 (17500-17699)
Series 17700-17799
Series 17800-17899
M.C.B. / AAR Mechanical Designation
FC
Inside Dimensions
Length
40'
Width
10'
Height
Outside Dimensions
Length
40'
Width
At Eaves or top of sides or platform
10'
Extreme Width
10'-3"
Height from Rail
To Extreme Width
3'-3"
To Eaves or top of sides or platform
3'-5"
To Top of Running Board
To Extreme Height
7'-6"
Door - Side opening
Width
Height
Capacity
Cu Ft. Level Full
Pounds
100000
ORER Notes
Discussion, General Notes
The car books don't indicate when the lease ends. I would suspect:
After the last car book listing (after 3/1960)
Possibly when the B&M car series 5200-5209 were put into service (approx. 7/1958)
Probably by the time car series 5225-5264 was put into service (approx 4/1960)
There (apparently) is (or was) one of these cars at the Valley RR Museum in Essex, CT (17704?), without piggyback equipment
There is a photo (Peter Ness collection) of (I think) NH 17768 (or 17769?) carrying a B&M trailer. No date or location yet known.
Also unknown if this was a car leased from the NH, or not.
Car Book and/or Car Disposition Data
Car Books (1923-06 thru 1936-10, then 1944-05 thru 1960-03)
Volume number refers original book number
Part number refers to PDF file part as posted on B&MRRHS site
Page numbers refer to pages in PDF file(s) (L/R = Left or Right side of that PDF page)
NOTE: once cars get renumbered into "company service" (zero + number, or W/M/S numbers), the following actions are my "best guess" as to what happened to the car (due to gaps in records, and the re-use of numbers)
Railway Age Magazine, 1957 "Special TOFC Report" (note the B&M was not listed in the 1954 TOFC report, unknown if there were similar reports in 1955 / 1956)
Boston & Maine - Plan 1 and Plan 2; trailerload and LTL (Plan 1 only) lots; avg. mo. vol. 459 trailers; Plan 1 trailers carried on rate divisions;
Plan 2 trailers receive $3.25 per diem; TOFC investment $85,000; in '58 to convert flats for TOFC using ACF hitch, extending Plan 2 to WTL territory.
