This page was maintained by Dennis Martin, and permmission has been given to use it. However, it will not be updated unless you provide me with information.
It was last updated May 1, 1999.
This information is taken primarily from the report Passenger Cars,
Freight Cars, and Maintenance of Way Equipment by Ella Rayburn, Curator,
Steamtown NHS. Part of this collection is stored off-site.
Baltimore and Ohio Business Car No. 903 (named "Ohio")
Built: Pullman Palace Car Co., 1895.
Info: Originally wood, steel sheathed in 1923. Used as an "office car"
by B&O RR.
Contains kitchen, crew quarters, three bedrooms, dining room and observation
room. Sleeps 5 passengers and 2 crew.
Barber Asphalt Company, Tank Car
Built: Pullman Car and Manufacturing Co. (?), between 1912-1920
Info: Most tank cars were privately owned. This one hauled asphalt
and was removed from interchange service by mid-1941 as its arch bar trucks
were banned then.
Boston & Maine Caboose #4307
Built: B&M Shops, pre-1893
Info: Wooden caboose with wood frame trucks. Cupola removed at
unknown time.
Later sold to St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain RR and renumbered 53.
Stored off-site.
Boston & Maine Caboose #4331
Built: Laconia Car Co., 1905
Info: Wooden caboose. Wood frame trucks with steel over the wood
frames.
Later sold to St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain RR and renumbered 51.
Stored off-site.
Boston & Maine Combination Car #626
Built: B&M Shops, June 1900.
Info: Downgraded to work train status in August 1947 and renumbered
W3165.
Wooden coach seats 46 passengers with a bulkhead separating passenger
space from baggage/parcel space.
Stored off-site.
Boston & Maine Baggage-Coach #2069
Built: B&M Shops, 1892.
Info: Renumbered 103 when transferred to the St. Johnsbury and Lake
Champlain RR in 1948.
Wooden car with colored glass clerestory. Currently without trucks.
Stored off-site.
Boston & Maine Day Coach #959
Built: Laconia Car Co, February 1893.
Info: Original number unknown. Numbered 210 in the 1930's. Renumbered
to 959 by 1937.
Wood frame construction with clerestory roof and "bull-nosed" ends.
Later turned into a tool car. Used 1967-1995 for visitors to watch
videotapes.
Boston & Maine Day Coach #1216
Built: Pullman Car Co., April 1906.
Info: Wooden coach seating 74 people.
Renumbered to 216 in 1932 and to W3265 when converted for maintenance
of way service in 1941.
Stored off-site.
Boston & Maine Dining Car # 84 (named "Maine")
Built: Pullman Car Co, December 1930.
Info: All-steel car modified in 1947 to be a diner-lounge with
seating for 22 diners and 14 in the lounge. Renamed the "Mountaineer" at
that time.
Boston & Maine Tool Car #W3013
Built: Western Steel and Foundry (?), 1908.
Info: Originally boxcar #65278.
Steel frame with wood sides, ends and roof.
Central Railroad Company of New Jersey Boxcar #18049
Built: American Car & Foundry, Berwick, PA, 1922.
Info: Wooden car in good condition.
Central Railroad Company of New Jersey Combination Car #303
Built: Pressed Steel Car Co., 1926.
Info: All steel seating 48 passengers.
Fully restored with mahogany inlaid with apple wood and dark walnut.
Baggage compartment adapted to add mobility-impaired access and seating.
Used in excursion service.
Central Railroad Company of New Jersey Crane #5 and Idler Gondola #92082
Built: (crane) Bucyrus, 1918.
Info: 150 ton lifting capacity crane on a modified gondola. The gondola
held tools and equipment but as the crane extended beyond its own car,
it was mainly to idly allow the crane to be swung over for transportation.
Central Railroad Company of New Jersey Suburban Coaches #1006, #1009, #1021,
#1022, #1023, #1026
Built: American Car and Foundry, 1923.
Info: 78 passenger coaches. Several CNJ coaches are used in excursion
service.
Coach #1009 stored off-site.
Central Railroad Company of New Jersey Suburban Coaches #1062 and #1152
Built: Standard Steel Car Co., 1923 (1062), 1925 (1152).
Info: 78 passenger coaches.
Central Railroad Company of New Jersey Suburban Coaches #1157, #1161, #1166
Built: B&M Shops, pre-1910.
Info: Wedge-shaped wooden snowplow with steel spreader blades.
Vertical stem wind hand brakes in place.
Delaware & Hudson Snow Flanger #36037
Built: Delaware & Hudson Shops, pre-1910.
Info: Wood cab and decking. Flanger blade is notched to fit over
rails. Raised to avoid grade crossings and obstructions.
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Baggage-Express Cars #2065 and #2067
Built: American Car & Foundry, Berwick, PA, 1926.
Info: Renumbered 306 (2065) and 251 (2067) after the Erie-Lackawanna
merger.
Carried baggage and parcels. Car 251 was modified to carry a messenger.
Built: DL&W Keyser Valley Shops, September 1952.
Info: Became Erie-Lackawanna #889 after merger and Conrail #19905
after 1976.
Donated to Steamtown by the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Chapter of
the NRHS. Recently restored to as-built condition.
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Electric Passenger Trailers #315, #320,
#330, #333, #334, #335, #343, #346.
Built: Pullman Car Co., 1925, as suburban passenger coaches.
Info: American Car and Foundry rebuilt these all-steel coaches
in 1930 as electric trailer coaches seating 82 passengers.
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Electric Passenger Trailer #681
Built: Pullman Car Co., March 1917
Info: Rebuilt in 1930 as #2333
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Electric Passenger Trailer #705
Built: Pullman Car Co., November 1920
Info: Rebuilt in 1930 as #2357.
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Gondola #68528
Built: American Car and Foundry, Berwick, PA, 1951.
Info: Steel with solid sides and drop end and a level wood floor.
In roadworthy condition.
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Hopper Car #81178
Built: 1910-19
Info: twin bay, 30 foot, bottom-dump steel hopper holding 1880
cubic feet (110,000 lb) of coal.
This "coal car" carried anthracite, the major commodity of the DL&W.
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Hopper Cars #82209, #82597
Built: 1920-29
Info: twin bay, 33 foot, bottom-dump steel hoppers holding 1950
cubic feet (100,000 lb)[sic] of coal.
These carried anthracite, the major commodity of the DL&W.
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Postal Storage Car #2054
Built: Pressed Steel Car Co., August 1925
Info: Originally carried express shipments on passenger trains.
By 1943, dedicated to carrying bulk mail.
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Suburban Coach #550, #580, #589, #613
Built: Pullman Car and Manufacturing Co., 1914 (550), 1915 (rest)
Info: All steel with open vestibules. Used in New Jersey.
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Troop Sleeper #3621
Built: Pullman Co., 1943-1946
Info: Boxcar-like with 30 crosswise triple-deck bunks.
Sold by Pullman to DL&W after war and used in MOW service.
East Branch & Lincoln Railroad Logging Derrick
Built: EB&L Shops, 1913(?)
Info: Made from a 4-wheeled shop crane with derrick cables operated
by on-board steam engine.
Motive power provided by company's Shay locomotive.
Link and pin coupler.
Erie Business Car #3
Built: Pullman Car and Manufacturing Co,. 1929(?)
Info: Originally Nickel Plate #2, later NP #27.
Two staterooms, two bedrooms, one porter's room.
Erie Coaches #2607, #2629, #2633
Built: American Car & Foundry, 1934
Info: 76 passenger. Stillwell design.
Great Western Railway Coach #6705
Built: in England, 1938
Info: Main line corridor brake composite coach.
Lake Superior & Ishpeming RR Boxcars #2509, #2565, #2569, #2592, #2613
Built: Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co., 1940, 50 or 52
Info: Rebuilt in 1968/69 by Pullman.
Sold to ITEL (San Francisco) then to Green Mountain Railroad.
Lehigh & New England Caboose #580
Built: Reading Company Shops, pre-1943
Info: All-steel with full-width centered cupola.
Sold to Central of New Jersey in 1961. Displayed in turntable area.
Lehigh Valley Caboose #95003
Built: LVRR Shops, Sayre, PA, May 1941
Info: All steel caboose. Later Conrail #18644.
Lehigh Valley Gondola (series 32850-33699)
Built: Bethlehem Steel, 1950-1952
Info: Sold to Marshall Railway Equipment Co. about 1958.
Remodeled 1959 with a steel floor.
Long Island Railroad Coaches #7016 and #7092
Built: American Car and Foundry, 1926
Info: Rebuilt in 1950's to seat 88 passengers.
Stored off-site.
Long Island Railroad Rotary Snowplow #193
Built: Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works, 1898
Info: Weighs 67.5 tons with a 9 foot, 8 inch blade assembly.
Present tender is a 1940 Pennsylvania RR replacement of the original
wood tender.
Only surviving steam rotary snowplow used on a railroad east of the
Mississippi.
Louisville & Nashville Post Office Car #1100 ,
Built: American Car and Foundry, 1914
Info: All steel car with historic interior intact.
In History Museum, open for display.
North American Car Corporation (NATX) Tank Car #4753
Built: American Car and Foundry, 1925
Info: Two domed hot melt unit. Riveted construction.
Capacity of 4577 gallons.
Exhibited in front of Oil House.
Pennsylvania Railroad Boxcars #105808, #109760
Built: 1919
Info: Originally wooden, rebuilt in 1945-1950 with steel sheathing.
Pullman Company Arsenal Tower (named "McPhail")
Built: Pullman Co., March 1925
Info: 12-section sleeper with one drawing room.
Rebuilt May 1942 with 8 open sections (upper and lower berths) one
drawing room, and three double bedrooms.
Sold by Pullman to Atlantic Coast Lines (Florida) in 1948.
Quebec Railway, Light and Power Company Day Coaches #102 and #124
Built: Jackson and Sharp, 1889
Info: Used as first class day coaches from 1889 to 1959.
Rutland Railroad Baggage-Express #129
Built: American Car and Foundry, Berwick, PA, October 1914
Info: All steel baggage cars used between Boston and Rutland.
Rutland Boxcar #8050
Built: 1923-1929
Info: Steel roof, under frame and ends with wood sides.
Stored off-site.
Rutland Boxcar #9194
Built: 1923-1929
Info: one and one-half door automobile boxcar used to ship autos
and other oversized freight.
Stored off-site.
Rutland Caboose #28
Built: Rutland Shops, around 1920
Info: Wood caboose with cupola offset towards the back.
Restored. In History Museum.
Rutland Combination Baggage-Express #253
Built: O.S. Bradley, before 1902
Info: Originally Chatham & Lebanon Valley RR until Rutland
purchased the railroad in 1901.
Stored off-site.
Rutland Flatcar #2777
Built: American Car and Foundry, Berwick PA, March 1910
Info: 40 by 9 foot cargo space with 100,000 lb capacity.
Probably carried marble. Displayed in turntable area.
Built: Rutland Shops, 1932
Info: The driver was built on steel frame flatcar #2799 and the
small tender, salvaged from a 4-4-0 locomotive, held coal for the pile
driver's steam engine.
Stored off-site.
Vermont Caboose #7
Built: around 1925
Info: May have been Central Vermont #4021.
Stored off-site.
