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BOXCAB

Oil-Electric ("Diesel") Locomotives

Separated out from the other Boxcabs pages 27 Sep 99
Electric, Pneumatic, and Steam Boxcabs
were separated out from these pages 27 Feb 99.

There are now more than fifty (50) BOXCAB pages;
see the main Boxcabs page and the Boxcabs INDEX.

This site has now been visited times since the counter was installed.

URGENT! - Save ARMCO B-71! - click HERE!

PAGE INDEX:

This is an unindexed browsing page
(scroll away - it's loaded with external links)
except that the surviving Baldwin-Westinghouse ARMCO units are indexed, as follows:

B-70 at the Southeastern Railway Museum,

B-71 at the Minnesota Transportation Museum,

B-73 at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, and

surviving Canadian unit, CN #77/7700, at the Canadian Railway Museum.

and the 1930 Westinghouse Oil-Electric catalog is reproduced herein,

with List of Units, and the Complete Text.

I will reproduce the photographs in the catalog as soon as I get a flatbed scanner going; see CN #77 for more on Westinghouse units.

[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, as well as McKeen, Westinghouse/Baldwin, Hamilton/EMC/EMD, and Pullman's efforts.]

Baldwin, Westinghouse, EMD, Brill, Whitcomb, the PRR, and many other manufacturers and railroad shops jumped on the ALCo-GE-IR bandwagon and built oil-electric/diesel boxcabs. I'll try to cover most of them as I go along.

A surprising proportion of the B-W units survived; Armco B-71and B-73 and CN #77/7700, and they are covered (or will be) in greater depth on their own separate Survivor pages, as noted below.

Other surviving electric (and any other odd) boxcabs are noted on the Odd Boxcabs continuation page.

Baldwin and Westinghouse cooperated on many early boxcab projects; their boxcabs seemed to have gotten short shrift in these boxcabs pages; this new (27 Sep 99) page will attempt to pull together all the Baldwin and Westinghouse boxcabs loco information previusly scattered thoughout the boxcabs pages.

BLW does NOT stand for Baldwin-Lima-Westinghouse, it stands for Baldwin Locomotive Works.

Marre (1995, pages 290-291) shows Baldwin's unsuccessful 1925 demo, #58501, a 1,000-HP A1A-A1A, and 1929 B-B demo #61000, no more successful, which had a Krupp engine, the first supercharged RR diesel used in the U.S. (older descriptions follow).

Two exceedingly-successful early Baldwin-Westinghouse oil-electric boxcabs were the paired ("semi-permanently-coupled") Long Island Rail Road 330HP 87-ton (each) #403A/B, "Mike and Ike" (s/n 60185/6), LIRR Class AA-4, built in September of 1927, which are pictured and covered in more detail on the LIRR Boxcabs page. They were later split and soldiered on both on- and (later) off-island long after most other boxcabs were scrapped or in museums; John Scala notes that both ended up scrapped in late 1955. I've copied the picture here, as well:

(photo of one 403 at PRR 4th Street Yard -
photo from Bill Russell's Penny Bridge)

ARMCO #B70 - Mark Laundry's gone and done it again; this time (26 Jul 98) he's found a site with a Baldwin-Westinghouse boxcab! It's the Southeastern Railway Museum* in Duluth (Atlanta area), Georgia, with #B-70, a 1929 Baldwin-Westinghouse built for the Butler Works of ARMCO Steel, only the third Baldwin-Westinghouse diesel locomotive made and the first one sold commercially. It's the oldest Baldwin-built diesel still in existence and has Pyrex^® windows to withstand steel mill temperatures. #B70 had control cabs on each end but was later modified to have both {?} at the same end {that sounds like a neat trick!} to make room for a larger prime mover.

[* - Note new URL]
(Write-up based on SRM text.)

ARMCO Steel Butler Works B-70
[Photo from Southeastern Railway Museum]

ARMCO Steel Corporation's Butler Works Baldwin-Westinghouse B-70
(no, NOT a Valkyrie bomber!)

Well, I was there at the end of Jun 00 and saw her for myself - stay tuned (two cabs at one end???)!

ARMCO #B-71 - Take a look at the Baldwin-Westinghouse Visibility Cab units noted on the Survivor Boxcabs page (Marre 1995, page 410); I've dubbed them "semi-boxcabs" to keep some semblance of order here! Now that I was out at the Minnesota Transportation Museum in St. Paul (on 22-23 Aug 99), I can show you that they have a complete but rusted hulk that was ARMCO's B-W #B-71 Visibility Cab:

ARMCO B-71 has been saved from the torch - click HERE! (22 Mar 03)

[Note: B70 originally had no dash/hyphen (it was "squoze" in on a later photo in the Balwin catalog) and B-71 and B-73 did - go figure!]

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 an odd link-and-pin draft box under the regular Janney at the cab end.
{link corrected 25 Mar 01.}

When these engines 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:

(photos © 1999 Pa. Trolley Museum - all rights reserved - photos taken at PaTM Aug 99)
[Thumbnail images; click on pictures for full images.].

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

Now, what do you think? There are no low level walkways at the sides and there are windows all around. PaTM says theirs is an end-cab but that applies to all ALCo S and EMC/EMD SW units. No, I say they're boxcabs (and it's MY site)!

Also, the photo in the 1930 Westinghouse catalog (below) of American Rolling Mills B-70 shows clearly that there is a dash/hyphen "squoze" in between the "B" and the "70" in the unit number but that of B-71 when new show that it did have a properly-spaced dash! ???

Pinkepank (1967, Page BLW-3) shows a 1925 one-off Baldwin boxcab, #58501, a 1,000-hp C-C road demonstrator which ran on the CNJ and the Reading; on the latter she pulled 1,000-ton trains between Reading and Tamaqua up a 0.7% grade at 16mph! #58501 had two two weird Knudsen inverted V-6 engines, didn't perform well, and was scrapped.

On Page BLW-4, Pinkepank (1967) shows a 1929 Baldwin, #61000, another 1,000-hp demonstrator, a very unique B-B boxcab switcher which was also unsuccessful and was scrapped.

Baldwin and Westinghouse built four 300-hp boxcabs in 1929 which were intended to be simplified versions of the ALCo-GE-IR consortium's offerings; they are not well documented but appear to be the prototype, Westinghouse #7, Great Lakes Steel (2), and Western Electric (1). A 1929 360-hp unit for H. K. Porter (the steam loco builder) may have been similar, as may a 1930 300-hp Illinois Steel Co. unit.

Westing's "The Locomotives That Baldwin Built" (see Bibliography) has a photo of Baldwin #61000 as "released to the railroads for demonstration service" on 15 May 1929. She had a 1,000HP Krupp 6-cylinder engine.

Thanks to Mark Laundry's alertness, I was able to get this photo of #61000 from Wayne Betty's site (by specific, written permission), apparently taken by one "H.R.H." (His Royal Highness?) on 25 Jan 31 at or near Elkton, Maryland, and from the collection the late D.W. Kleinhans: (22 Mar 03)

(photo courtesy of, and © 2002 by, W. Betty - all rights reserved)
[Heavily-cropped thumbnail image; click on picture for full image.].

#60000 was the "Baldwin Boomer" 4-10-2 roller bearing demo now in the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

CN 9000/9100
(Photo from TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA #43)

In 1929, Westinghouse and Canadian Locomotive Company teamed up to build CNR a two-unit, 2x1,330-hp, boxcab pair, #9000, claimed as the first large diesel locomotive in North America. It immedately ran between Montréal and Vancouver (coast to coast) in regular CN passenger service, showing the long-distance capability of big oil-electrics. During WWII, it was split and one unit was armo(u)red and disguised to resemble a boxcar; this was to fool the Japanese off the West Coast. Later, both units were scrapped (Pinkepank, 1967, Pp BLW-28 and -29); guess they can't be up at the Montréal museum then, eh?.
Page BLW-29 - 1929 Westinghouse-Canadian Locomotive Company CNR).

HURRAH for Louis Marre (1995)! On page 409 he shows the original #9000 pair AND the ARMO(U)RED version of single 9000! The latter had been re-engined with an EMD 16-cylinder 567 and armo(u)red in 1943 but never saw service in the armo(u)red configuration, which was stripped off after the war.

Here is an excellent photograph of #9000 from the collection of the Canada Science and Technology Museum at Railways > Historic CN 1919-1963 > Locomotives and Equipment:

(photo property of, and reproduced here by special written permission of,
the Canada Science and Technology Museum - all rights reserved to the Museum.
This image may NOT be copied or reproduced without specific, prior, written permission of CSTM.).

CSTM caption: "CNR 9000, the first mainline diesel, locomotive in Canada,
Dixie, Quebec, Canada, 1929, Photographer: unknown,
Subject: Diesel locomotives / Canadian Locomotive Company,
Image No.: CN000523, CSTMC/CN Collection".

The 1929 CNR #77 noted on the Survivors map at "C" [I changed the symbol] appears to be a variant of the Baldwin-Westinghouse Visibility Cab unit but without end platforms and with a notch in the body side to allow access to the cab, thus making it a semi-boxcab or a hood unit with an end cab and a blob on the right front (if the cab is at the rear):

It is up at the Musée Ferroviare Canadien/Canadian RR Museum in St. Constant (Delson), Québec, Canada, in company with a 1914 GE electric boxcab. #77 was built by the Canadian Locomotive Company to Baldwin -Westinghouse designs and is the oldest surviving CNR diesel (although it has been re-engined, while retaining its original electricals). I was up there in Montréal on 25 Jun 2002.

Note the side door, recessed back to the "shoulder" (window area) on the side of #77/7700; many later Visibility Cab units had such or even a short walkway from the door to the front on each side (and both ends on steeple-cab double-engined units like WEMCO #12 - Marre), with no shoulder outboard from that door (a few last units even had superchargers - Marre). Good ol' Mark Laundry came through for me (by accident) with this picture of Detroit Marine Terminals #9, showing exactly that odd front walkway:

Joseph Testagrose posted this picture to the Net on 29 Feb 00, indicating it was taken at Detroit, Michigan, probably in Mar 64. Since DMT is not listed as an original purchaser, I hope to backtrack ownership and find out as what it started out (I wonder if it wasn't one of the three supercharged 1937 Great Lakes Steel units, #3, 4, or 5).

A 1930 Westinghouse oil-electric catalog (and a 1936 one from I-R) was reproduced in TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA #43.

The units listed in the 1930 catalog are as follows (summary list):

Canadian National Railways, Articulated 400-Hp., Oil Electric Rail Car for Passenger and Baggage Service, Road Numbers 15817 and 15818

Canadian National Railways, 300-Hp., Oil Electric Rail Car for Passenger and Baggage Service, Road Numbers 15826-30 inc.

Reading Railroad, 300-Hp., Oil Electric Rail Car for Passenger, Baggage and Mail Service Road Numbers 70 and 74

Pennsylvania Railroad, 300-Hp., Oil Electric Rail Car for Passenger and Baggage Service, Road Numbers 4663 and 4664

Canadian National Railways, 350-Hp., Oil Electric Rail Car for Passenger and Baggage Service, Road Numbers 15832-15838 inc.

Great Northern Railway Co., 400-Hp., Oil Electric Rail Car for Baggage and Mail Service, (no number shown)

Erie Railroad, 600-Hp., Oil Electric Rail Car for Baggage and Mail Service, Road Number 5000

Westinghouse Standard Car, 400-Hp., Oil Electric Rail Car for Passenger, Baggage and Mail Service, Road Number 20

Long Island Railroad {sic}, Two 43.5-Ton Oil Electric Motive Power Units for Switching Service, Road Numbers 403-A and 403-B {sic}

Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company East Pittsburgh Works, 55-Ton, 300-Hp., Oil Electric Locomotive for Switching Service, Road Number 7

Western Electric Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 58-Ton, Oil Electric Locomotive for Switching Service, Road Number 1

American Rolling Mill Co., Butler, Pennsylvania, 74.5-Ton, Oil Electric Locomotive for Switching Service, Road Number B-70{sic}

American Steel & Wire Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 70-Ton, Oil Electric Locomotive for Switching Service, Road Number 1 {"Visibility" End Cab}

American Rolling Mill Co., Butler, Pennsylvania, 70-Ton, Oil Electric Locomotive for Switching Service, Road Number B-71{sic} {"Visibility" End Cab}

Canadian National Railways, 70-Ton, Oil Electric Locomotive for Switching Service, Road Number 7700, {now 77?, "Visibility" End Cab with side door}

Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Ecorse, Michigan, 70-Ton, Oil Electric Locomotive for Switching Service, Road Numbers 1 and 2 {"Visibility" End Cab}

Westinghouse Standard Locomotive, 70-Ton, Oil Electric Locomotive for Switching Service, Road Numbers 21 and 22 {"Visibility" End Cab}

Westinghouse Standard Locomotive, 110-Ton, Oil Electric Locomotive for Switching Service, Road Number 23 {"Visibility" Steeple Cab}

Canadian National Railways, Two 162.5-Ton, Oil Electric Motive Power Units for Freight or Passenger Service, Road Numbers 9000 and 9001

Built by The Canadian Locomotive Works on plans of The Baldwin Locomotive Works

under the supervision of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.

Here is the 1930 Westinghouse catalog:

Although there is no copyright notice anywhere in the issue, I want it perfectly clear
that this material comes directly from the TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA issue, edited only minimally.

TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA, No. 43

"Diesel and Oil Electrics from Westinghouse (1930) and Ingersoll-Rand (1936)"
64 Full-Size Pages Reprinted from the Original Catalogs - Newton K. Gregg, publisher, March 1976

{Front Cover - C. R. R. of N. J. 1000}

"Oil Electric Locomotives and Rail Cars, Special Publication 1880, June 1930, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburgh, Pa." (24 pp.), following.

{There is also a 1936 catalog of the first 113 Ingersoll-Rand boxcabs,
which is reproduced on the I-R Boxcabs Page 2.}

OIL ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES AND RAIL CARS

Single Power Plant Oil Electric Locomotives

300 AND 400 HP.

{End Views, Plan View, and Elevation of End Cab Single Power Plant Oil Electric Locomotive}

Double Power Plant Oil Electric Locomotives

600 AND 800 HP.

{End Views, Plan View, and Elevation of Steeple Cab Double Power Plant Oil Electric Locomotive}

OIL ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES AND RAIL CARS FOR SAFETY ... ECONOMY ... AVAILABILITY

Oil Electric Locomotives and Rail Car Data

Oil Electric Rail Car Data

Canadian National Railways

Articulated 400-Hp.,
Oil Electric Rail Car
for Passenger and Baggage
Service (Road Numbers 15817
and 15818)

Oil Electric Rail Car Data

Canadian National Railways

300-Hp.,
Oil Electric Rail Car
for Passenger and Baggage
Service

(Road Numbers 15826-30 inc.)

Oil Electric Rail Car Data

Reading Railroad

300-Hp.,
Oil Electric Rail Car
for Passenger, Baggage and
Mail Service

(Road Numbers 70 and 74)

Oil Electric Rail Car Data

Pennsylvania Railroad

300-Hp.,
Oil Electric Rail Car
for Passenger and Baggage
Service

(Road Numbers 4663
and 4664)

Oil Electric Rail Car Data

Canadian National Railways

350-Hp.,
Oil Electric Rail Car
for Passenger and Baggage
Service

(Road Numbers 15832-
15838 inc.)

Oil Electric Rail Car Data

Great Northern Railway Co.

400-Hp.,
Oil Electric Rail Car
for Baggage and Mail Service

(no number shown)

Oil Electric Rail Car Data

Erie Railroad

600-Hp.,
Oil Electric Rail Car
for Baggage and Mail Service

(Road Number 5000)

Oil Electric Rail Car Data

Westinghouse Standard Car

400-Hp.,
Oil Electric Rail Car
for Passenger, Baggage and
Mail Service

(Road Number 20)

Oil Electric Locomotive Data

Long Island Railroad {sic}

Two 43.5 - Ton
Oil Electric Motive Power
Units for Switching Service

(Road Numbers 403-A
and 403-B)

{Sample of specifications in exact Westinghouse format:}
(for full specs for #403, see separate #403 survivor page)}

Total Weight per unit                                               87,000 lb.
Classification of wheels                                            B {Bo}
Weight on drivers                                                   87,000 lb.
Number of driving axles                                              2
Maximum starting tractive effort (25.8% adhesion)                   22,400 lb.
Tractive effort - continuous rating                                  3,250 lb.
{etc.}

{end of sample - actual page goes on to list Maximum safe speed, Track gauge, Total wheel base, Rigid wheel base, Length overall, Length of cab, Width of cab, Height from rail to top of radiators, Diameter of drivers, Engines per cab, Type and fuel, Cylinders, Cycle, Rating {hp. at rpm.}, Generator, Auxiliary generator, Number and type of motors, Gear ratio, Control, Battery, Compressors, Radiators, Number of this type of unit furnished, and Year placed in service {1928}.
Sample of specifications in exact Westinghouse format;
(for full specs for #403, see separate #403 survivor page).}

Oil Electric Locomotive Data

Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company
East Pittsburgh Works

55 - Ton, 300-Hp.,
Oil Electric Locomotive
for Switching Service

(Road Number 7)

Oil Electric Locomotive Data

Western Electric Company
Baltimore, Maryland

58 - Ton,
Oil Electric Locomotive
for Switching Service

(Road Number 1)

Oil Electric Locomotive Data

American Rolling Mill Co.
Butler, Pennsylvania

74.5 - Ton,
Oil Electric Locomotive
for Switching Service

(Road Number B-70{sic})

{For full specs for #B-70, see separate #B-70 survivor page.}

Oil Electric Locomotive Data

American Steel & Wire Co.
Cleveland, Ohio