Conrail Caboose Photo Archive

The ex PRR N5B Class

The N-5B cabin cars were built during 1941 by the PRR. While it was modernized version of the N-5, there were only minor exterior variations (higher handrails on the end platforms, narrower window frames on the carbody sides, a trust company plate in the lower side corner and most of the improvements that had been
made to the basic N-5 series).

Built new 1941 similar to N5 hand rails on end higher, windows square corners and narrower
crash post AB brakes Ajax brake wheels

Exterior dimensions - length of 30', 7-1/2" between strikers; 13-feet, 5-inches high from rail surface to top of cupola; and width of 9-feet, 8-inclues between each set of side steps. They weighed 43,150 lbs.

The PRR built two hundred N5B's : Nos. 477620-477819.
Conrail #19103, 19106, 19417, 20001-20076, 22796-22843, 22854-22989

183 cars made it to the Conrail roster with their Penn Central Numbers

By 1981 there were only 163 left.


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N5B
Location & Information
Date Photo Credit
 20027  Conway Yard PA
in a work train		  Nov 3, 1984  Chip Syme

 20027
Rio Grande NJ
former Penn Central 22891 nee PRR 477662
It is in The Cape May
Seashore Lines Yard.		 July 4, 1998  Stan Feldman
20030  Alliance OH  May 10, 1986 Ross Jack
  20030  Alliance OH  July 27, 1986 Kurt Brockman

20043

 New Freedom PA
preserved

 Nov 21, 1999

 Jeff Shanks
20050  looking a bit rough
windows boarded up
corner post bent		    Chip Syme
20060 Landisville Railroad     


20063

Boston Park Department,
part of a Rails to Trails
project in East Boston, MA

Fall 2007 Pete Jackson
20072 Holidaysburg PA  Oct 8, 1986 Chip Syme
 no photo yet

20075
Preserved as NH C-507 -
built by PRR in 1929 for the NH
it became Penn Central 22989
acquired by the
Railroad Museum of New England
in 1985		    
20076 Wilmington DE
Edgemoor Yard
actually the N5E		  Nov 23, 1984 Chip Syme
20077 Clearfield PA  Mar 15, 1986 Ross Jack

22797
Mechanicstown OH
on the OHI Rail		 Sept 13, 1997  Jim Hebner

22811
 Steubenville OH
Preserved in Marina Park		 Sept 13, 1997  Jim Hebner
22819  Minerva OH Feb 11, 1979  Ross Jack
  22819

 Minerva OH
lub plate

Feb 10, 1979 Chip Syme
22821  Berea OH May 2, 1986  Ross Jack
22821  Cresson PA May 1985 from the
collection of
Albert Phleep
 

22824
 Maybrook NY
preserved!		    Gene Fusco

 22827
 Vermilion OH
Eastbound, passing over the former NKP
Visit Arnie Morscher's Railroad Photo Site		 October 14, 1985  Arnold H Morscher
 

22841
 Steubenville OH
Preserved as Tourist info office
mislabeled as N5C		  September 13, 1997  Jim Hebner
 

22853
 Springfield, OH  December 17, 1978  Jim Hebner

22859
 Columbus OH
Buckeye Yard		  1984  Chris Hebner
     Ada OH
as it appears today
as PRR 477779		  February 2, 1997  Jim Hebner
 

 22875
 Cedarville OH  August 10, 1997  Jim Hebner
 22879   New Freedom, PA
all other railroad equipment is gone,
and no more trains run out of there.		  May 5, 2001  Ed Feathers
   22888  Summerville PA Jan 4-86  Ross Jack
   22888  Summerville PA Jan 4-86  Ross Jack
 

 22897
     
 

22966
 Bridge One
Cleveland OH		    George Elwood

?????
 Ridgefield Park NJ
at what appears to br the local police pistol range		  October 5, 1998 Jeff Lubchansky
 ?????  Newport RI
on the
Old Colony & Newport Railway		 Jan 2005  Paul McGrane 

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 the N3, N3A, N4 & N4A classes  the N8D class ex DL&W
 the N5 class  the N8 class ex-PRR class
 the N5A, N5E, N5F classes  the Transfer Classes
the N5B class  the N10 and N12 classes ex Penn Central
the N5C class  the ex New Haven classes
 the Other N5 classes N5G, H, K  the N20 class ex Reading
 the N7 classes  the N21 classes The Conrail Caboose
 the N7D & N7E ex EL  the MW Cabooses

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