Transient Freight EquipmentBR&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. CustomersHere are the BR&W's customers, as represented on my layout, and the types of cars delivered to them.
*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
Covered Hoppers
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