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Updated: 13 Aug 2002, 20:40 ET
(Created 01 Feb 2001)
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I-R 60-ton Demo

A new type of locomotive!
Ingersoll-Rand 1925 Demonstrator #9681
(later CNJ #1000)
(ALCo builders photo S-1484 - source uncertain;
possibly from 1980s AAR flyer)

ALCo-GE-IR SURVIVOR BOXCAB

Oil-Electric ("Diesel") Locomotives

(American Locomotive Company - General Electric - Ingersoll-Rand)

{I make an exception to the AGEIR focus
for any surviving boxcab!}

There are now more than forty (40) BOXCAB pages;
see the main Boxcabs page and the Boxcabs INDEX.

See the Boxcab Survivors Page
specifically for those others that survived.

PAGE INDEX:

This page is unindexed (so far); scroll away
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1930 Westinghouse Catalog Data on B-73

There are now separate pages for each surviving boxcab; the redundant material is being removed from the main survivors pages (very slowly).

This site has now been visited

times since the counter was installed.

SURVIVOR BOXCAB LOCATION MAP

If you are travelling, take a look at the Survivor Boxcabs Map, with accompanying Survivor Boxcabs Roster, and go visit your favorite boxcab!

There are seven (7) ALCo-GE-IR (and just GE-IR or GE alone) boxcab units surviving and four (4) B-W (or B-W-style) units, one EMC unit, plus two (2) "home-grown" Anglo-Canadian and English units and two (2) electric boxcab survivors, for a total of sixteen(16) known North American and British survivors.

Here we are concerned with Baldwin-Westinghouse (so it's not an ALco-GE-IR) survivor ARMCO (American Rolling Mills) #B-73, now at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, Washington, Pennsylvania (40 miles south of Pittsburgh).

George P. Elwood has two great photographs of B-73 by Bill Navari on his fantastic photo site:

click here for the left side and here for the right side.

ARMCO B-73

The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum has ARMCO #B-73, built by Baldwin-Westinghouse in 1930 and in very good and restored condition. B-73 was re-engined in 1948 with a 400 hp Hamilton and is now restored to ARMCO Butler Works colors. I finally got out and saw this gem on 11 Jun 00! My own photos will follow on my return from sister B-70. Among other details, they will better show as-received damage to the roof^@, one of the builder's plates, and what seemed to be an odd link-and-pin* draft box under the regular Janney at the cab end.

Bob Jordan kindly wrote on 01 Aug 2002 {minimally edited}:

* - "I noticed your comment re 'an odd link-and-pin draft box under the regular Janney at the cab end' and thought you might like the explanation. Agreed, it does look like some sort of link and pin arrangement, but what you saw still inside the draft box is actually the torched-off end from the shank of a standard knuckle coupler. This second, low mounted coupler was at the correct height to mate with charging buggies used in Armco's open hearth operation at Butler. The extra coupler had to be removed before delivery via RR to the Trolley Museum, and Armco found a torch to be most expeditious. When installed, the lower coupler was actually captured inside the box before the box was bolted in place, so the pin is inaccessible."

@ - "Regarding the damaged cab roof; the damage still evident was actually the third time Armco crews ran B-73 into the same fixed obstruction in the mill. Problem was, B-71 cleared the obstruction, and B-73 didn't. If you look really close at B-71 you'll find the cab roof on it is 6 inches lower than B-73. Evidently the crew occasionally forgot which loco they were running. Once B-73 can enjoy indoor storage, that damage will be repaired."

Thanks, Bob!

Here's a postcard view of B-73 as a thumbnail (I can't seem to reducethe primary view and it's HUGE!):

[Thumbnail image; click on picture for full image.].

When these locos were built (1930), ARMCO was still American Rolling Mills.

The PaTM was kind enough to send me pix of #B-73 in her new old livery; the last she wore as an ARMCO Butler Works engine:

{New in the sense that it is new to this page, having been copied from the Baldwin-Westinghouse page 25 Mar 01.}

{The photos sent were quite sharp; I'll have to rescan them.}

Wandering around linked RR sites, I ran across Net buddy Mark Laundry's The Yard Limit, whereon were two photos of B-73 at the PaTM by John Smatlak (Railway Preservation Resources), one of the unit in museum service and one of the engine:

I don't seem to have the 1930 Westinghouse catalog data for #B-73;
I assume it must be virtually identical to sister B-71, q.v.

There are now more than forty (40) BOXCAB pages;
see the main Boxcabs page and the Boxcabs INDEX.

See the Boxcab Survivors Page
specifically for those others that survived.

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