Updated: 23 Feb 2008, 23:40 ET
(Created 12 Sep 2000)
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S. Berliner, III's
A "new" boxcab!
Ingersoll-Rand 1925 Demonstrator #9681
(later CNJ #1000)
(ALCo builders photo S-1484 - source uncertain;
possibly from 1980s AAR flyer)
This page was split off from the Survivors Roster page and the engine listings renumbered on 10 Sep 99.
There are now be separate pages for each surviving boxcab.
On the Survivor Boxcabs page:
times since the counter was installed.
(Photo from TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA #43)
More photos were taken and will follow (as of 01 Jul 00).
Other surviving gas/oil-electric/diesel boxcabs (including +, @, and *, on map on main Survivors page) are noted on the Other Boxcabs continuation page.
Other surviving electric (and any other odd) boxcabs (including e, on map on main Survivors page) are noted on the Odd Boxcabs continuation page.
I-R Engine No. 41150 \
I.R. List No. 5894 \_ (from IRM,
G.E. Loco No. 10026 / 20 Sep 99)
Type of Loco - 300 HP. /
She's inaccessible and the trucks are out (one traction motor is burned out); here are some boxcab views you aren't likely to see normally - of a bare truck frame, the wheelsets, the top and bottom of two journals, and a detail of one wheelset:
(photos © 1999 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved - photos taken at IRM, 24 Aug 99).
[Thumbnail images; click on picture for full image.].
Look at the wheels; they are SPOKED! Duh, I never knew that! CNJ #1000's are definitely SOLID!
Note also the beautiful condition of the drive gear (other than a light rusting) after a long lifetime of continuous service!
Out at the IRM on 24 Aug 99, I found #3001/91 up on blocks in the repair shop, with her trucks disassembled and the frames, journals, and axles sitting in the mud and weeds; the "most unusual photos to follow shortly" are now posted above!
Here, thanks to Mark Laundry's advice, is the I-R #91 soldiering away at Phillipsburg ca. 1940:
There's another photo of #91 at the IRM on Arnold Hans Morscher's (Arnie's) great site.
12 Nov 01 update - she's to be fully restored to operating condition and a fund-raising drive will begin soon. More on this to follow shortly!
Ron Titus, who worked at I-R's Phillipsburg facility (as did his
father before him) and who furnished photos of the plant (see the
I-R Boxcabs page, recognized the crew - he worked with them;
{edited slightly} "braking on the front is Tom Lilly, operating
is Lawrence 'Hamie' Hamilton. Tom is dead but Hamie is still
alive. It was taken in front of the Loco Shed ('Garage').
The building on the left behind the loco is the power house coal
elevator to the rear of the power house. The building on the
right is #13 or Forge Shop."
(23 Feb 08)
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.
Roster of surviving ALCo-GE-IR (and just GE-IR or GE alone) boxcabs on Survivor Boxcabs page.
Other surviving gas/oil-electric/diesel boxcabs (including +, @, and *, on map on main Survivors page) are noted on the Other Boxcabs continuation page.
Other surviving electric (and any other odd) boxcabs (including e, on map on main Survivors page) are noted on the Odd Boxcabs continuation page.
To contact S. Berliner, III, please click here.
{Not inserted into the Boxcabs Tour sequence, yet.}
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