St. Clair Tunnel Electric Boxcabs Survivors Page
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ST. CLAIR TUNNEL ELECTRIC BOXCABS
Survivors Page

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(Page separated out from Electric Boxcabs Continuation Page 1 on 01 Jan 03,
thus becoming my 280th page, the 52st Boxcabs page!)

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.

BOXCAB BIBLIOGRAPHY is at the end of Continuation Page 3.


PAGE INDEX:

On the main Electric Boxcabs page:
  ELECTRIC BOXCABS
1893 GE/MfrsRR/NHRR #1 - moved to its own page 01 Jan 03.   rev.gif (01 Jan 03)
Piedmont & Northern #5103
    (moved to Electric Boxcab (Survivors) Continuation Page 3 on 11 Jun 02
        and to this, its own page, on 01 Jan 03.   rev.gif (01 Jan 03)
ELECTRIC BOXGON!

On the Electric Boxcabs Continuation Page 1:
  ELECTRIC BOXCABS - Part 2, with

GE/MfrsRR/NHRR #1 History (continued),   new.gif (06 Dec 02)
        and moved to its own page on 01 Jan 03.   rev.gif (01 Jan 03)
St. Clair Tunnel Electric Boxcabs,
    <#mystery>Mystery Canadian G.E. Electric Boxcab (no it's not!)
        moved to this, their own page on 01 Jan 03.   rev.gif (01 Jan 03)
Chilean Boxcabs, and
Other Overseas Electric Boxcabs

On the Electric Boxcab (Survivors) Continuation Page 2:

1907 So. Bklyn (SBK) #4 (moved to this page 31 Dec 02).   rev.gif (31 Dec 02)
L&PS #L1 and #L2.
        moved to their own page on 01 Jan 03.   rev.gif (01 Jan 03)
Butte, Anaconda & Pacific.
        moved to its own page on 27 Sep 02.   rev.gif (01 Jan 03)

On the SBK #4 Electric Boxcab Survivor Page:   new.gif (31 Dec 02)

So. Bklyn #4.
        moved to this, its own, page on 31 Jan 02.   rev.gif (01 Jan 03)

On the Electric Boxcabs (Survivors) Continuation Page 3:

moved there from the main Electric Boxcabs page 11 Jun 02
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Still on Continuation Page 5:
  ODD BOXCABS

AIR BOXCAB!
STEAM BOXCABS!
  ODDER BOXCABS


St. Clair Tunnel Electric Boxcab Survivors

 

Not quite overseas, but up in Canada, as noted on the previous page, there were also boxcab electric locomotives, apparently similar to the surviving #6711, pulling trains through the 1890 St. Clair (Sarnia) tunnel on the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada's St. Clair Tunnel Co. between Port Huron, Michigan, and Sarnia, Ontario (about 40 miles NNE of Detroit, Michigan/Windsor, Ontario).  There is an excellent photograph of StCT #1308* from the collection of the Canada Science and Technology Museum at Railways > Before CN 1850s-1919 > Locomotives and Equipment.  The StCT also had different paired units in the 9150-series ca. 1927 or earlier.

Here is an excellent photograph of #1308* {see above}, from the collection of the Canada Science and Technology Museum at Railways > Historic CN 1919-1963 > Locomotives and Equipment; it is the property of the Museum and I have received specific, written permission to reproduce it here (for which I am exceedingly grateful):

St. Clair Tunnel #1308
(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:  "St. Clair Tunnel Company electric locomotive No. 1308
exiting Sarnia Tunnel Sarnia, Ontario, Canada ca.1915, Photographer: unknown
Subject: Electric locomotives / Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada /
Saint Clair Tunnel (Port Huron, Mich. and Sarnia, Ont.,
Image No.: CN000384, CSTMC/CN Collection ".

William Miller advises (05 Aug 01) that the original electrics were delivered as #1305 to #1310, inclusive.


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


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To tour the Boxcabs pages in sequence, the arrows take you from the previous page, to the Boxcabs index, to the first boxcabs page, and on 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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