Conrail Caboose Photo Archive
The ex-PRR N5B Class

The N5B cabin cars were built in 1941 by the PRR. While it was modernized version of the N5, 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 but the hand rails on ends were higher, the windows had square corners and narrower
crash posts and AB brakes and 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.
Click on the image or number to view a larger image
Location & Information
Date
Photo Credit
20003

Catskill Mountain Railroad 675
(Ex-PRR 477672, PC 22800, CR 20003)

still in use on the CMRR
 20007

 Newport RI
ex-PC 22837/CR 20007, blt.1938
on the
Old Colony & Newport Railway
The Old Colony and Newport ceased operations in early 2015 and eventually merged into the
Newport and Narragansett Bay.
Jan 2005 
Paul McGrane 

Lewisburg PA

Aug 29, 2020
Casey Naton
 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
 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

 looking a bit rough
windows boarded up
corner post bent
 Chip Syme
Landisville Railroad 


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

Fall 2007
Pete Jackson
Holidaysburg PA
 Oct 8, 1986
Chip Syme

20075

built by PRR in 1929 as PRR 477585

ex-PC19386, /PC/CR 22989, CR20075

Preserved as NH C-507 (never was NH caboose)
acquired by the
Railroad Museum of New England
in 1985
May 1988
from the
collection of
Albert Phleep
Wilmington DE
Edgemoor Yard
actually the N5E
 Nov 23, 1984
Chip Syme
Clearfield PA
 Mar 15, 1986
Ross Jack

22797

Mechanicstown OH
on the OHI Rail
Sept 13, 1997
 Jim Hebner
Train DjCI5 taking the Miami Cut Branch
CP Maumee Toledo OH
Nov 5, 1978
Steven M Geisler

22811

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

 Minerva OH
lub plate

Feb 10, 1979
Chip Syme
 Berea OH
May 2, 1986
 Ross Jack
 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 PRR 477779
 February 2, 1997
 Jim Hebner
 

 22875

 Cedarville OH
 August 10, 1997
 Jim Hebner
 Cedarville OH
still rusting away
August 7, 2014
 Jim Hebner
  New Freedom PA
trains run again!
 May 5, 2001
 Ed Feathers
 22888
 Summerville PA
Jan 4, 1986
 Ross Jack
 22888
 Summerville PA
Jan 4, 1986
 Ross Jack
 

 22897

unknown
note interesting window on right side
from the
collection of
Albert Phleep
 

22966

 Bridge One
Cleveland OH
 George Elwood
unknown
unknown
unknown

?????

 Ridgefield Park NJ
at what appears to be the local police
pistol range
 October 5, 1998
Jeff Lubchansky

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Updated June 26, 2023