Updated: 22 Jul 2006, 08:50 ET
(Created 12 Aug 2000)
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S. Berliner, III's
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)
Here's a severe crop and doctoring of his 2002 picture
: (two passenger trains in the threatened Montevideo Central Station);
nice chassis (and that boxcab-like #916 thing isn't bad, either)!
(Cropped and altered from photo courtesy M. Benoit 2002 - all rights reserved)
times since the counter was installed.
- this is a page to balance the load and leave more room for boxcab information on each boxcab page.
(14 Aug 04)
Click here for information (below) about the late John F.
Campbell's
ALCO / General Electric / Ingersoll-Rand (AGEIR) Diesel-Electric Locomotives" Site.
(18 Jan 06)
This Boxcab Index Page
.Boxcab History and Introductory matter {at beginning of page}.
Early Predecessors of the ALCo-GE-IR Boxcabs.
[First of all, I want to credit Bill Russell, Penny Bridge; we seem to be linking back and forth but he has the most compendious site about NY-area railroading, where most boxcabs lurked, with tons of information.
Second, take a look at Mark Laundry's Yard Limit Diesel Switcher Spotter's and Reference Guide, a site about early diesel switchers, especially a 1994 paper by Benn Coifman on "The Evolution of the Diesel Locomotive in the United States", with an excellent history of the ALCo-GE-IR consortium, and including a section on GE's contributions (on both of which I have drawn), as well as McKeen, Westinghouse/Baldwin, Hamilton/EMC/EMD, and Pullman's efforts.]
There is another site about BOXCABS! It's Railroading in the North East (Northeast Railfan), Clint Chamberlain's neat efforts; he has a page of BOXCAB PHOTOS, many by Don Ross and one erroneously credited to me, mostly on this (my) site, but take a look at his whole site! John F. Campbell's ALCO / General Electric / Ingersoll-Rand (AGEIR) Diesel-Electric Locomotives" Site
Since Sep 00, there had been an extremely detailed and accurate site focusing
exclusively on the earliest history of the ALCo-GE-IR (AGEIR) and GE-IR locos, the late
John F. Campbell's "http://www.execpc.com/~jcampbel/ageir.html"
ALCO / General Electric / Ingersoll-Rand (AGEIR) Diesel-Electric Locomotives" site; I
had heartily recommended it to you! John Campbell had since added a
complete roster of all the ALCo-GE-IR boxcab locos built in the first production run,
totalling 33 units, from 1925 to 1930, but not the later Bi- and Tri-Power or GE-IR units.
He then added a roster of the GE-IR units. Unfortunately, John passed away
far too early, on 23 Feb 2005 (for more more information about John, click
here) and, after about a year, his site vanished from the Net. Knowing he
was gone, I took the precaution of saving his entire site, all the HTML coding and
images (or so I thought) and have now reproduced it in full to the best of my ability,
adding a full index:
(22 Jul 06)
AGEIR Boxcabs Pages Index (my own addition - to be detailed as I devote the time)AGEIR History {main page}
AGEIR #8835 Demonstrator {continued}
AGEIR #8835 Demonstration Trials of 1924 and 1925
AGEIR #9681 Demonstrator and early construction information
AGEIR First Production of 60 ton 300 horsepower Oil-electric Locomotives
AGEIR First Production of 100 ton 600 horsepower Oil-electric Locomotive
AGEIR 60 Ton Oil-Electrics on ALCO Order # S-1532 and Order # S-1543
Chicago & North Western AGEIR and GE/I-R Diesel-electric Locomotives {First of} Two Pages)
Chicago & North Western AGEIR and GE/I-R Diesel-electric Locomotives (Second Page)
GENERAL ELECTRIC 20 and 23 TON BOX CABS
GENERAL ELECTRIC 23 TON 36" NARROW GAUGE BOX CAB
AGEIR Oil-electric Diesel-electric LOCOMOTIVE ROSTER {First of} Two Pages)
AGEIR Oil-electric Diesel-electric LOCOMOTIVE ROSTER (Page 2)
Post AGEIR - GE/I-R Oil-electric Diesel-electric LOCOMOTIVE ROSTER
A few of the illustrations are lost and some (especially on the GE/I-R roster) have yet
to be recreated but the vast bulk of John's work is again available. You can
pick from the links above, go directly to to the index page, or start with the main page
and proceed in John's intended sequence by clicking the 
buttons at the bottom of each page.
(22 Jul 06)
BIG NEWS! - I-R found an old brochure on the original boxcabs; it (a xerocopy) arrived 18 May 98 and is a gold mine! I-R gave me permission (19 May 98) to reproduce it, which I plan to do on a new page (or pages), starting with my Ingersoll-Rand page, on which I've already listed the boxcab photos and illustrations therein. I-R uses the term "box-type cab" and all units are double ended (2 engineer's control stands).
In addition there are three (3) ARMCO {Baldwin-Westinghouse} units and CNR #77 and CP #7000 in Montréal {non-ALCo-GE-IR}.
There are also two 1915 GE boxcab electrics in Ontario!
For details on surviving ALCo-GE-IR boxcab locomotives, see the SURVIVORS continuation page. Other survivors are noted on the Other Boxcabs continuation page.
I have added several pages of detailed photos of the CNJ #1000 (120 photos) and the only surviving 108-tonner, Foley Bros. #110-1 (35 photos).
who knows when the last boxcab in series production (as opposed to the durable Dan Patch loco) ran at the end of continuous service?
Updated (
See the primary page index at the top of this page for more detail of each page's contents and links.
BOXCAB PAGES TOUR INDEX
Because the URL page numbering is NOT sequential, and even I am getting
confused, here is the sequence of the tour arrows at the bottom of each page:
- this may not be 100%
correct but you get the general idea (I hope); I'm still working on the sequencing.
URL - *.html Page
In the tour sequence:
boxcabdx Boxcabs Index
boxcabs Main Boxcabs page
boxcabs4 Boxcabs cont. page 4 (overflow)
boxcabs3 ALCo-GE-IR cont. page 3,
with Boxcabs Bibliography (older material - to 1989)
boxcabib Boxcabs Bibliography - cont'd. (1990 - up)
boxcabs1 LIRR #401 & Sisters
boxcab1a LIRR #401 & Sisters cont. page
boxcabs6 Boxcabs cont. page 6 (including more on 100/108-tonners)
boxcbprr PRR Class A6/A6b (first PRR I.C. Boxcab Locos) and others
boxcabnh New Haven Boxcabs
boxcabny New York Central Boxcabs (with S-motor continuation)
boxcabs0 Survivor Boxcabs
boxcabsv Survivor Notes
boxcnj1k CNJ #1000
boxcuc11 {ref. page to boxcbuc3}
boxcabir I-R, with '29 brochure
boxcbir2 I-R page 2, with '36 catalog
boxcabs2 Other Boxcabs cont. page 2
boxcabge GE Boxcabs page
boxcabsb Baldwin/Westinghouse '30 catalog
boxcabs5 Odd Boxcabs cont. page 5
boxcab5a Odder Boxcabs cont. page 5a
boxcabel Electric Boxcabs
boxcabl1 Electric Boxcabs - part 2
boxcabl2 Electric Boxcab Survivors cont. page 2
boxcabl3 Electric Boxcab Survivors cont. page 3
boxcabmd Model Boxcabs page
boxcbmd1 Model Boxcabs cont. page 1
boxcabz Model BoxzcabZ (1:220)
Not in the tour sequence (yet):
Survivors - GE and AGEIR (in no order):
boxcdp1c Dan Patch #100
boxcnj-1 CNJ #1000 photo page
boxcnjp1 CNJ #1000 photo page 1
boxcnjp2 CNJ #1000 photo page 2
boxcbno1 B&O #1/195/8000
boxcir90 I.R. #90
boxcir91 I.R. #91 (DL&W #3001)
boxcbuc3 U.C.#3/EMCO #11
boxc1101 Foley Br.#110-1
boxzc110p Foley Br.#110-1 photo page 2
Survivors - non-AGEIR:
boxcbo50 EMC B&O #50
boxcab70 B-W ARMCO B-70.
boxcab71 B-W ARMCO B-71
boxcab73 B-W ARMCO B-73
boxccn77 CLW/CNR #7700/77
boxccp7k NCC{H&W}CP #7000
boxcfbth British Ford Thompson Houston
box-sbk4 South Brooklyn #4
boxcabdd PRR Class DD1 #3936-3937 (Juniata, 1911)
boxcabp5 PRR Class P5 #4700 (1931, Altoona)
boxcabb1 Class B1 #5690 (Altoona, 1934)
Other pages:
boxtours Trains Unlimited, Tours Photo Collection (archive)
- this may not be 100%
correct but you get the general idea (I hope); I'm still working on the sequencing.
11 Jan 04
)
There are now more than fifty-five (55) BOXCAB pages.
To contact S. Berliner, III, please click here.
To tour the Boxcabs pages in sequence, the arrows take you from this Boxcabs index page to the first Boxcabs page, then to continuation pages 3 and up, then 100-tonner LIRR #401 and her sisters, survivor boxcabs (with map) and survivor notes, survivor CNJ #1000 (the very first), Ingersoll-Rand boxcabs (with instruction manual), other (non-ALCo/GE/I-R) boxcabs, Baldwin-Westinghouse boxcabs, odd boxcabs, and finally model boxcabs.
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