Scanned Car Data

The links on this page are to Freight Car data scanned from the archives, and transcriptions thereof.

The car books were small bound books recording all car purchases only (for 1899-1917 books) and purchases/changes/dispositions (for the 1923-1960 books). As Squarespace has a 20 MB limit for file size, larger scans were broken into 18-19 MB files to allow them to be uploaded. The index links are repeated here for convenience, they are the same documents as on the “main” on-line archive page.

Scanned/transcribed by Ken Akerboom

Record of freight, passenger, and, sometimes, “Rail Motor Cars” (i.e. EMC and Budd RDC)
Proof-reading has been done on all index files. Errata from the first versions has been highlighted in yellow.
ALSO NOTE: PDFs are mostly about 18-19 MB!

• Car Acquisition Books (1899-1917)
  Purchases only

  • PDF index (updated 17-Oct-2020)

  • Excel Index (updated 17-Oct-2020)

  • Volume 1 (1899 - 1909, approx)

    • Part 1 (pp 0 - 25)

    • Part 2 (pp 26 - 49)

    • Part 3 (pp 50 - 73)

    • Part 4 (pp 74 - 97)

    • Part 5 (pp 98 - 119)

    • Part 6 (pp 120 - 143)

    • Part 7 (pp 144 - 165)

    • Part 8 (pp 166 - 189)

    • Part 9 (pp 190 - 200)

  • Volume 2 (1909-1917, approx)

    • Part 1 (pp 0 - 29)

    • Part 2 (pp 30 - 55)

    • Part 3 (pp 56 - 81)

    • Part 4 (pp 82 - 105)

    • Part 5 (pp 106 - 127)

    • [rest of pages were blank, and not scanned]

• Car Books (1923 - 1960)
  Include purchases, re-numberings, disposals
  Car Books index (Excel) (updated 25-Oct-2020)
  Car Books Index (PDF) (updated 25-Oct-2020)

  • Vol 1 (1923 - 1929, approx.)

    • Part 1

    • Part 2

    • Part 3

    • Part 4

    • Part 5

    • Part 6

  • Vol 2 (1929 - 1936, plus random 1944-1953 approx.)

    • Part 1

    • Part 2

  • Vol 3 (1944 - 1954, approx.)

    • Part 1

    • Part 2

    • Part 3

    • Part 4

    • Part 5

    • Part 6

    • Part 7

    • Part 8

    • Part 9

    • Part 10

  • Vol 4 (1954 - 1959, approx.)

    • Part 1

    • Part 2

    • Part 3

    • Part 4

    • Part 5

    • Part 6

    • Part 7

    • Part 8

    • Part 9

  • Vol 5 (1959 - 1960, approx.)

    • Part 1

    • Part 2

• NOTE: Actual freight car pages are included in the appropriate series page(s) in the Freight Car Summary, the links here are for index pages and for buggies [AKA “cabooses”] that don’t have a car series for them

  • “1942” book (might be 1943…)

    • Index, page 1A

    • Index, page 1B

    • Index, page 2

    • Index, page ?2A? [page number cut off]

    • Index, page 3

    • p20 (Caboose, 4 wheel, no monitor)

    • p22 (Caboose, 8 wheel, 5 window narrow monitor)

    • p23 (Caboose, 8 wheel, 1921 Laconia, original monitor)

    • p24 (Caboose, 8 wheel, 4 window narrow monitor)

    • p25 (Caboose, 8 wheel, 1921 Laconia, wide monitor)

    • p26 (Caboose, all steel, 1932, PRR N5b design)

    • p27 (Caboose, 8 wheel, wide monitor)

    • p28 (Caboose, all steel, 1942, NH design)

    • p29 (Caboose, 8 wheel, rebuilt milk cars)

  • 1955 book
    Note the “index” pages are a bit muddled, they may be out of order?

    • Cover Page

    • Cover Page 2

    • Index, page “0” [not numbered]

    • Index, Page 1

    • Index, page 1, marked “Obsolete”

    • Index, page 1A

    • Index, page 1B

    • Index, page 2

    • Index, page 3

    • Index, passenger cars, page 0 [not numbered]

    • Index, passenger cars, page 1

    • p20 (Caboose, 4 wheel, no monitor)

    • p21 (Caboose, 4 wheel, with monitor)

    • p43 (GEX 2000-2007 well flats, similar to B&M 5000 series)

These records (on “Letter” size paper, mostly) record the fates for each individual car. I have yet to do a detailed analysis, but they appear to be initially created in the mid-1920s, and go until about 1960. Again, the scans for the larger classes were broken into parts to fit the 20 MB file size limit. Sometimes more than one list was created for a car series - the “letters” (e.g. “A”, “B”, etc.) are my “best guess” as to their order of creation.

Transcribed data (Excel)

Organization: The original documents are in the B&MRRHS Archives, as item 2004.36.285. They are in 2 boxes (box 1 & 2 :-) and several folders, Each folder is numbered and “named” for the types of cars in the folder (sometimes incorrectly…)

• Box 1

  • Folder 1 - [passenger cars - not scanned]

  • Folder 2 - [passenger cars - not scanned]

  • Folder 3 - “Freight Car List (old)”

    • 5000 series flats

    • 5100 series flats

    • 5572 coal (gondola)

    • 5900 series Seley hoppers

    • 6006-7676 Coal (gondola)

    • 7000 series hoppers - “A”

    • 7100 series hoppers - “A”

    • 8000 series hoppers - “A”

    • 8900 series “Hart” gondolas

    • 9000 series “Hart” gondolas

    • 9100 series “Hart” gondolas - “A”

    • 10190 - 12758 Auto + Misc

    • 12007-12758 “Converted to passenger but not renumbered”

    • 12800-13049 + misc to 13400 (Reefer + misc)

    • 13100 series Reefers - “A”

    • 104000 Cabooses - “A”

  • Folder 4 - “Caboose Cars”

    • 103000-103509 - "A"

    • 103000-103509 - "B"

    • 104000-104998 - "B"

    • C1-C39 - "A"

    • C1-C49 - "B"

  • Folder 5 - “Coal Cars” (i.e. gondolas and hoppers)

    • 5500-5529 Covered_Hoppers - “A”

    • 7000 series hoppers - “B”

    • 7100 series hoppers - “B”

    • 8000 series hoppers - “B” (Part 1)

    • 8000 series hoppers - “B” (Part 2)

    • 8000 series hoppers - “B” (Part 3)

    • 8000 series hoppers - “C”

    • 9200-9211 Gondolas - “A” (ex-92000 series)

    • 12178-12394 Auto - “B”

    • 21000 series Coal (gondola) - “A”

    • 22000 series Coal (gondola) - “A” (Part 1)

    • 22000 series Coal (gondola) - “A” (Part 2)

    • 23000 series Coal (gondola) - “A” (Part 1)

    • 23000 series Coal (gondola) - “A” (Part 2)

    • 24000 series Coal (gondola) - “A” (Part 1)

    • 24000 series Coal (gondola) - “A” (Part 2)

    • 25397-25874 Flat - “A”

    • 27200-27239 Stock - “A”

    • 29000 series Pulpwood - “A”

    • 29107 Hopper

    • 30015-32994 Flat - “A”
      Includes:

      • 30000 series flat cars (1892-1907)

      • 31500 series flat cars (1891)

      • 32000 series flat cars (1887-1905)

  • Folder 6 - “Flat Cars”

    • 33000 series Flat - “A”

    • 33500 series Flat - “A”

    • 33500 series Flat - “B”

    • 33500 series Flat - “C”

    • 39000 series Coal (Gondola) - “A” (Part 1)

    • 39000 series Coal (Gondola) - “A” (Part 2)

  • Folder 7 - “Gondola Cars”

    • 9100 series “Hart” gondolas - “B”

    • 90000 series gondolas - “B” (Part 1)

    • 90000 series gondolas - “B” (Part 2)

    • 92000 series gondolas - “B” (Part 1)

    • 92000 series gondolas - “B” (Part 2)

    • 92000 series gondolas - “B” (Part 3)

    • 92000 series gondolas - “C”

    • 92000 series gondolas - “D”

  • Folder 8 - “Pulpwood, Lumber, Refrigerator”

    • 5200 series Lumber - “A”

    • 13100 series Reefers - “B”

    • 27200 - 27500 series Stock - “B”

    • 29000 series Pulpwood - “B”

    • WH series Wheel - “A”

• Box 2

  • Folder 1 - “Boxcars - 40,000s”
    Covers 40200 (ice), 40800 (ice), 41000, 41100, 44000, and 46000 series cars

    • 40200-46755 Box

    • 46801-47501 Box

    • 47502-48330 Box

    • 48331-49234 Box

    • 49236-49998 Box

  • Folder 2 - “Boxcars - 60,000s (built 1906-1910)”
    Covers 60000, 64680, 68300 (ex-VV), 68320 (ex-SC) series box cars,
    also 69999 (ex-B&O) and (2nd) 64680 (ex-P&LE)

    • 60000-60682- “A”

    • 60685-61452- “A”

    • 61453-62215- “A”

    • 62218-63055- “A”

    • 63059-63849- “A”

    • 63851-64650- “A”

    • 64651-64999- “A”

    • 65000-65720- “A”

    • 65721-66460- “A”

    • 66461-67195- “A”

    • 67196-67924- “A”

    • 67925-68394- “A”

  • Folder 3 - “Boxcars - 60,000s (built 1908-1909)”

    • 64680-67003 - “B”

  • Folder 4 - “Boxcars - 70,000s (built 1919-1930-1942)”

    • 70000 series - “A”

    • 70000 series - “B”

    • 71000-72020 - “A”

    • 72021-72999 - “A”

    • 73000 series - “A”

  • Folder 5 - “Boxcars - 70,000s (built 1930)”

    • 71000-71402 - “B”

    • 71403-71808 - “B”

    • 71809-72215 - “B”

    • 72216-72616 - “B”

    • 72617-72995 - “B”

    • 71000 + 69999 - “C”

  • Folder 6 - “Boxcars - 80,000s - 90,000s (built 1909-1919-1930-1942)”
    [except they are all gondolas!]

    • 80000 series gondolas “A” - part 1

    • 80000 series gondolas “A” - part 2

    • 81000 series gondolas “A” - part 1

    • 81000 series gondolas “A” - part 2

    • 90000 series gondolas “A” - part 1

    • 90000 series gondolas “A” - part 2

    • 90000 series gondolas “A” - part 3

    • 92000 series gondolas “A”

Derived data

MTC Cars

This list was compiled mostly from the disposition records, but also from data (as listed) found in the ”Freight Car Data” area. While photographic proof (other than MTC 8000) is probably the “best” source, this is likely the “best” list of cars with MTC reporting marks that can be made (unless more photos are found).

• List of cars with MTC reporting marks (Excel file)

TO DO list

If someone doesn’t beat me to it….I plan on working on the following:

• Integrating the Disposal data into the “main” Freight Car Data pages

  • Adding last “N” (10 or 20) car numbers for each car series, and their retirement dates section as well.

• Try to establish (approx.) start/end dates for each list

• For rebuilt box cars, compare “Rebuilt” dates from Disposal data with ORER notes on “end” data to try to determine when Mogul and all-steel “Murphy” ends were applied to boxcars

• for 7681 - 7699 cars, document their “source” cars