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The ex PRR N-5 Class

 

N-5

The N5 was as designed and built 1914-1917, the first all-steel cabin car. There were 925 N5 cabooses. Former PRR # 476694-477619. They were 29 foot long, steel and were in the 19000 series but not consecutively numbered.

 N-5 #

 Location & Information

Date

Photo Credit
 19023  Conway Yard, PA  May 1976  Jim Hebner
19028  Niantic CT
outside the Railway Express Agency		  1975  B. Dowd
 19070  Niagara Falls ON Canada    Jim Hebner
 19078  Niagara Falls NY  April 1975  Dave Eckler
 19103  Webster NY  September 1975  Jim Hebner
 19112  Buckeye Yard
Columbus Ohio		    Jim Hebner
 19123  Shown at Yorktown Heights NY - preserved! Now at the Danbury Rail Museum undergoing restoration  October 1995  Gene Fusco
  19123  as it looked as it arrived at the Danbury Rail Museum awaiting restoration  1997 DRM 
  19150  Phillipsburg, NJ April 18, 1971 unknown 
 19201      Bill Waller
   19217  Phillipsburg NJ  April 30, 1977 unknown 
   19233  Pittsburgh, PA May 21, 1978 David Hamley
   19248  Preserved! by the Cumberland Valley Chapter N.R.H.S. in Chambersburg, PA.    Jim Hermsdorfer
  19257  Dewitt Yard    Jim Hebner
  19292  Xenia OH  1974 or '75  Jim Hebner
19314  Abrams, PA  Sept. 25, 1978  
19330  Thordale PA Nov. 7, 1971 from the
collection of
Jim Hebner
 19348  Newark NY    Jim Hebner
  19354  Niagara Falls NY  June 1976  Jim Hebner
  19388 Phillipsburg NJ  Feb. 27,1976  from the
collection of
Jim Hebner
 19398      
 19406  Conway Yard, PA  May 1976  Jim Hebner
   477297  Rochester NY
Goodman St. Yard		  October 30, 1971  Jim Hebner
  477397  Vanport PA
built July 1923
may not have made it to Conrail		  November 1973  George Alberti

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