Transient Freight Equipment

BR&W's first revenue freight train ran on 16 March 1970, and consisted of six boxcars and two covered hoppers. By the following year, the interchange track in Lambertville had to be extended to handle the number of cars being left for the BR&W. In 1972, the siding at Copper Hill had to be extended and and turned into a passing siding to allow two trains to pass one another. Then, the BR&W/NS Interchange was built in 1977, further increasing freight traffic. At its peak, the BR&W was handling up to 750 cars per year.

Customers

Here are the BR&W's customers, as represented on my layout, and the types of cars delivered to them.

Customer

Business Type

Car Type

Location

Niece Lumber

lumber & building materials

centerbeams, boxcars

Lambertville

Breen Color Concentrates

chemicals

covered hoppers

Ringoes*

Hunterdon Building Supply

lumber & building materials

centerbeams, boxcars

Flemington

Bemis Company

plastic film manufacturer

covered hoppers

Flemington

Delaware Valley Farmers Co-op

feed & grain

covered hoppers, boxcars

Flemington

Ralston-Purina Mills

feed & grain

covered hoppers, boxcars

Flemington

Flemington Film Products

plastic film manufacturer

covered hoppers

Flemington

Ferrellgas

propane

tank cars

Three Bridges

*Breen Color of Lambertville used the team track at Ringoes yard to offload cars.

Photographs from this period provide a good guide to the freight car styles and road names seen on the line. The following list includes cars I own that are good proxies for the real cars. That said, some cars I've no photographic evidence of ever being on the line (yellow rows); I've included them simply because I wanted to. And there will be more to come: I'll need to get some of the cars I don't have, such as 50-foot boxcars, LPG tank cars, and centerbeams.

Boxcars

Number

Road Name

Car Type

2108

Boston & Maine

40' single-door

3507

Chicago & Eastern Illinois

40' single-door

8130

Wabash

40' double-door

22377

Illinois Central

40' single-door

62008

Lehigh Valley

40' single-door

76482

Boston & Maine

40' single-door

96025

Missouri Pacific

40' plug door

109118

Reading

40' single-door

350527

Conrail

40' plug door

428650

Canadian National

40' single-door

505601

Southern

40' plug door

505603

Southern

40' plug door

603499

Pennsylvania

40' single-door

Covered Hoppers

Number

Road Name

Car Type

1038

Central of New Jersey

cylindrical

1096

Central of New Jersey

cylindrical

32308

Penn Central

70-ton H30

78968

Reading

PS-4000

78982

Reading

PS-4000

78988

Reading

PS-4000

254258

Pennsylvania

70-ton H30

255281

Pennsylvania

70-ton H30

260716

Pennsylvania

3-bay ACF

261003

Pennsylvania

Dry-Flo

290523

Norfolk & Western

PS-4000

886025

New York Central

3-bay ACF

888074

Penn Central

Flexi-Flo

888083

Conrail

Flexi-Flo

888242

Penn Central

3-bay ACF

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