The 60-ton, 300-hp CNJ #1000 at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, is the very first production diesel locomotive and the Long Island Rail Road's (now-scrapped) 100-ton, 600-hp, #401 was the very first diesel road switcher, the first production locomotive to haul a revenue train over a long distance on a Class 1 main line [the LIRR later got a second 100-tonner #402 (2nd), to which the later #110-1 was very similar, as was The Red River Lumber Co. #502^*].  After GE and ALCo parted company, GE built several 100-tonners, one of which was for Foley Bros., built under GE Builder #11047 and completed during October 1929.

* - for more on other 100/108-tonners and RRL #502, see LIRR #401 and Sisters page 1, 100/108-ton boxcabs page (with #502), and Boxcab Cooling Problems on page 4.

The #110-1 survives at the Portola Railroad Museum in Portola, California, 'way up over Donner Pass in the High Sierras, near Lake Tahoe, Nevada.  The Museum is operated by the Feather River Rail Society, a group primarily devoted to the Western Pacific RR (more about the Museum to follow).

She has a 24' 2" total wheelbase, 7' 2" truck wheelbase, 36" wheels, 124,000 lbs. total weight, 37,200 lb. starting force, and was built in December of 1929 but placed in service in January 1930.

Foley Bros. #110-1 is the only surviving 100-ton (nominal - actually 108-ton) oil-electric boxcab!

(photo © 1998 Samuel Herschbein - all rights reserved - taken Sep 98 -
photo reproduced from S. Herschbein's Portola RR Museum/FRRS site
by specific permission of Samuel Herschbein).
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(photo taken 13 Aug 98 at Portola Museum by and © 1999 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
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[My apologies to the great folks at Portola; the pictures I took out there had vanished in one of my subsequent moves; they turned up in an unmarked box on 08 Nov 99 and you can now see more of #110-1 than you ever wanted to see!]

A Portola volunteer advises that #110-1 now (Feb 00) "sits in the diesel shop instead of outside and is getting some TLC.  It will eventually be displayed with three period log flats to illustrate the Red River Lumber company operation."  To which I replied "Hoorah!"

Here she is on an exceptionally clear day when a visitor was able to catch her unimpeded by other rolling stock (wish I'd been so lucky!):

(photo courtesy of FRRS 31 Jul 00 - all rights reserved)
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Sam Herschbein unlimbered his camera again, ca. 30 Oct 01, and here she is in three more similar views:

(cropped and enhanced from photos courtesy of S. Herschbein Oct 01 - all rights reserved)
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  (restored - 15 Jun 05)

Now, at long last, the photos I took (except for the roof picture taken for me from the cab roof of the adjoining switcher by a staffer) in Portola on 13 Aug 98 are scanned and up; because they are so IMAGE-INTENSIVE (meaning BIG!), I've created a separate photo page to which you should only go intentionally by clicking HERE!

Big news! - I drove the 260 miles out to Portola from my daughter's place in San Carlos on 04 May 2004 and got a fairly complete set of pictures of the roof details, especially the transverse blown radiators; they will appear on the next page just as soon as I get home and have them developed.

I'll have to look at (and to scan in) that I-R manual and see if I can identify some of the details about which I am unsure.

Each survivor has, or will have, its own separate page on this site.

Assuming possible duplications are wrong, there are at least 8 ALCo-GE-IR (and just GE-IR) boxcab units surviving and, if they are all right, there are at least 7 units surviving.

In addition there are three (3) Baldwin-Westinghouse ARMCO units and CNR #77 and CP #7000.