100-ton ALCO boxcabs had semi-cylindrical ends. Trains portal ALCO boxcab Box motor GE boxcab GE three-power boxcab GE 57-ton gas-electric boxcab Wikimedia...
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The GE boxcabs, sometimes also GE IR boxcabs, were diesel-electric switcher locomotives succeeding the ALCO boxcabs. The locomotives were built by General...
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The ALCO boxcabs were diesel-electric switcher locomotives, otherwise known as AGEIR boxcabs as a contraction of the names of the builders. Produced by...
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The General Electric (GE) 289A Boxcabs were a series of electric locomotives built by General Electric during the 1920s which operated in Chile on the...
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The GE three-power boxcabs were early electro-diesel hybrid switcher locomotives. These boxcabs were termed oil battery electrics to avoid the use of the...
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The GN boxcab locomotives were the first electric locomotives purchased by the Great Northern Railway (GN) for use through the Cascade Tunnel. Four locomotives...
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EP-1 - 12 2-unit boxcab sets (24 locomotives) built in 1915 by ALCO/GE. Converted to freight class EF-1 in 1920. In 1950, two boxcab two-unit sets were...
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Canadian National Class Z-1-a (redirect from CN Boxcab Electric)
CN Boxcab #602...
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The American Locomotive Company (ALCO), based in Schenectady, New York, United States produced a wide range of diesel-electric locomotives from its opening...
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rail motive power. The first GE Locomotive was a series of four-axle (B-B) boxcab gasoline–electric machines closely related to the "doodlebugs", self-propelled...
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The Canadian National Class Z-4-a was a batch of nine electric "boxcab" type locomotives built by English Electric for the Montreal Harbour Commissioners...
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1-truck/4 rigid axle locomotive. The only known examples are a series of diesel boxcab locomotives built and owned by the Texas Mexican Railway. "2-A1A" means...
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and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) classes EP-1 and EF-1 comprised 42 boxcab electric locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company (Alco) in...
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Mikado locomotives. CN inherited from the Canadian Northern Railway several boxcab electrics used through the Mount Royal Tunnel. Those were built between...
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the tunnel chamber. The motive power for the section consisted of four GN boxcab locomotives supplied by the American Locomotive Company; they used electrical...
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These had similar power and mechanical layouts to the E-units, but in boxcab bodies on AAR type B two-axle trucks. EMC also introduced the TA model in...
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works, and AT&SF #1 was contracted to St. Louis Car Company. Like most boxcabs, they initially had control cabs at both ends, a feature that would only...
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locomotives that were in use in Canada include the St. Clair Tunnel Co. Boxcab Electric, CN Boxcab Electric, and GMD GF6C. Exo in Montreal operated ALP-45DP dual-mode...
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Chicago "L". ChiNET. Retrieved January 28, 2017. "ALCo-GE-IR Survivor Boxcabs Continuation Page". Archived from the original on April 22, 2009. Retrieved...
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(the "AGEIR" consortium) in 1924 to produce a prototype 300 hp (220 kW) "boxcab" locomotive delivered in July 1925. This locomotive demonstrated that the...
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The New Haven EP-2 was a class of boxcab electric locomotives built by Baldwin-Westinghouse for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The locomotives...
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6% westbound. CNoR placed an order with General Electric in 1914 for 6 boxcab electric-powered locomotives for use in the tunnel; they were delivered...
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examples preserved and/or in service on heritage railroads. GE three-power boxcab – tri-mode switcher locomotive model built in 1930, was also capable of...
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(2015–2020) Jamie Watson (All Engines Go) Philip NWR 68 A little diesel boxcab who lives and works on the Island of Sodor on the North Western Railway...
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the cabs. Later designs resembled the Bo-Bo layout, where a single large boxcab spanned the two bogies and was pivoted upon them. As these pivots did not...
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locomotives from the parent New Haven Railroad. In addition, the prototype ALCO boxcab #8835 was tested in November 1924 but UFRR decided not to purchase the type...
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to the front. The locomotives ran on AAR type B trucks re-used from EMC boxcab demonstrators #511 and 512. The two NW4s were EMC S/N 823 and 824, and were...
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150 cars daily. Electric operation was ceased in the 1930s when the GE boxcab diesel locomotives arrived. 1938 brought an Alco HH660 series locomotive...
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and Roanoke, Virginia. To work this line the Virginian bought 36 EL-3A boxcab locomotives from Westinghouse. The Virginian added four EL-2B locomotives...
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The N&W LC-2 was a class of boxcab electric locomotives built by Westinghouse and the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) for the Norfolk and Western Railway...
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