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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)
(General Electric - Ingersoll-Rand)
(Image from TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA #43)
There are now more than fifty-five (55) BOXCAB pages;
see the main Boxcabs page and the Boxcabs INDEX.
IMAGE-INTENSIVE PAGE
This page is unindexed, except for a linked photo index; scroll away;
there is also a roof detail photo index.
{31 Aug 07}
times since the counter was installed.
Refer to the main SURVIVORS page for the full
In addition, roof and other details have been added.
There is similar detailed photo coverage of the original production single-engined 300HP, 60-ton, AGEIR boxcab, CNJ #1000 at the B&O RR Museum in Baltimore.
SPECIAL COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Please be advised that the images shown on this page, unless otherwise noted, are reproduced here by special permission of the Portola Railroad Museum and may NOT be reproduced further in any form, or for any purpose, without without prior written permission of the photographer, S. Berliner, III, AND of the Feather River Rail Society or the Portola Railroad Museum.
The 60-ton, 300-hp CNJ #1000 at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, is the very first production diesel locomotive and the Long Island Rail Road's (now-scrapped) 100-ton, 600-hp, #401 was the very first diesel road switcher, the first production locomotive to haul a revenue train over a long distance on a Class 1 main line [the LIRR later got a second 100-tonner #402 (2nd), to which the later #110-1 was very similar, as was The Red River Lumber Co. #502]. After GE and ALCo parted company, GE built several 100-tonners, one of which was for Foley Bros., built under GE Builder #11047 and completed during October 1929.
The #110-1 survives at the Portola Railroad Museum in Portola, California, 'way up over Donner Pass in the High Sierras, near Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The Museum is operated by the Feather River Rail Society, a group primarily devoted to the Western Pacific RR (more about the Museum to follow).
Foley Bros. #110-1 is the only surviving 100-ton (nominal - actually 108-ton) oil-electric boxcab!
Now, at long last, here are the photos I took (except for the roof picture taken for me from the cab roof of the adjoining switcher by a staffer) in Portola on 13 Aug 98.
Because there are so many photos and they are so big, here is a linked index, with captions:
Foley Bros. #110-1 Photo Index:
Photo #01 - #2 end, right rear.
Photo #02 - #2 end, left rear
Photo #03 - #2 end, left rear
Photo #04 - #1 end, roof detail (from cab of adjoining loco)
Photo #05 - #2 end, left stacks (sort of)
Photo #06 - #2 end, rear truck - left
Photo #07 - #2 end, left rear poling pocket area
Photo #08 - #2 end, left rear step (vertical)
Photo #09 - #2 end, rear truck - left rear journal
Photo #10 - #2 end, left rear #2 stencil; repro builder's plate
Photo #11 - #1 end, left front "B" stencil
Photo #12 - #1 end, left front "F1" stencil
Photo #13 - left side, upper main lettering
Photo #14 - #1 end, left front
Photo #15 - left side, upper main lettering and cooling coils
Photo #16 - #2 end, left rear step (horizontal)
Photo #17 - left side, rear truck - left forward journal
Photo #18 - left side, air tank end
Photo #19 - left side, battery/tool box {?}
Photo #20 - left side, front truck - left rear journal
Photo #21 - left side, side view of rear platform
Photo #22 - rear, top view of rear platform
Photo #23 - front, left side of control stand
Photo #24 - front, engineer's corner - lower
Photo #25 - front, engineer's corner - upper
Photo #26 - front, engineer's seat box
Photo #27 - inside left, back of "A" generator
Photo #28 - inside left, back of "A" engine
Photo #29 - inside right, front of "B" engine
Photo #30 - inside right, fuel pumps
Photo #31 - inside right, compressor mufflers {?}
Photo #32 - inside right, back of compressor motor
Photo #33 - inside right, distributing valve and dirt collector
Photo #34 - inside right, front of "B" engine heads/cylinders
Photo #35 - inside right, front of "B" engine crankcase
I also did not want to cut down on the resolution or have pop-up ads, so these and the CNJ #1000 detail photos are costing me dearly in storage space and money! You'd BETTER enjoy all this, which took me several days to scan and load!
- I got my conventions WRONG on many of these photos; the front of the loco is the "F1" end and the rear (where the brakestand is located) is the "2" end, so the "right" side is the "A" side or right looking from "2" to "F1" and the "left" side is the "B" side or left looking from "2" to "F1"; supposedly, I relabeled all the erroneous captions (where have you heard THAT before?).
(05 Aug 02 sketch, rev. 16 May 04, by and © S. Berliner, III 2002, 2004 - all rights reserved)
I stopped at a hardware store near Portola (not realizing how big a town Portola would turn out to be!) and bought a folding rule and pair of yardsticks, one of which I cut up with my penknife (you could carry them on an airplane, then!) into 12" segments, to give scale to my detailed photos:
Photo #01 - #2 end, right rear {there's that elusive brakewheel, just peeking out
around the doorframe under the handrail}.
Photo #02 - #2 end, left rear.
Photo #03 - #2 end, left rear.
Photo #04 - #1 end, roof detail (from cab of adjoining loco).
Photo #05 - #2 end, left stacks (sort of).
{17 May 04}
Photo #06 - #2 end, rear truck - left.
Photo #07 - #2 end, left rear poling pocket area.
Photo #08 - #2 end, left rear step (vertical).
Photo #09 - #2 end, rear truck - left rear journal.
Photo #10 - #2 end, left rear #2 stencil; repro builder's plate.
Photo #11 - #1 end, left front "B" stencil.
Photo #12 - #1 end, left front "F1" stencil.
Photo #13 - left side, upper main lettering.
Photo #14 - #1 end, left front.
Photo #15 - left side, upper main lettering and cooling coils.
Photo #16 - #2 end, left rear step (horizontal).
Photo #17 - left side, rear truck - left forward journal.
Photo #18 - left side, air tank end.
Photo #19 - left side, battery/tool box {?}.
Photo #20 - left side, front truck - left rear journal.
Photo #21 - left side, side view of rear platform.
Photo #22 - rear, top view of rear platform.
Photo #23 - front, left side of control stand.
Photo #24 - front, engineer's corner - lower.
Photo #25 - front, engineer's corner - upper.
Photo #26 - front, engineer's seat box.
Photo #27 - inside left, back of "A" generator.
Photo #28 - inside left, back of "A" engine.
Photo #29 - inside right, front of "B" engine.
Photo #30 - inside right, fuel pumps.
Photo #31 - inside right, compressor mufflers {?}.
Photo #32 - inside right, back of compressor motor.
Photo #33 - inside right, distributing valve and dirt collector.
Photo #34 - inside right, front of "B" engine heads/cylinders.
Photo #35 - inside right, front of "B" engine crankcase.
(13 Aug 98 photos by and © S. Berliner, III 1998, 2002 - all rights reserved)
[some cropped and enhanced]
That's it; there's a third California roll but it has no Portola pix.
SPECIAL COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Please be advised that the images shown on this page, unless otherwise noted, are reproduced here by special permission of the Portola Railroad Museum and may NOT be reproduced further in any form, or for any purpose, without without prior written permission of the photographer, S. Berliner, III, AND of the Feather River Rail Society or the Portola Railroad Museum.
BIG NEWS! - While in California for my younger daughter's wedding, I drove the 260 miles out to Portola from my daughter's place in San Carlos on 04 May 2004 and got a fairly complete set of pictures of the roof details, especially of the transverse blown radiators; on 16 May 2004, I scanned them in and here they are:
Rather than post such IMAGE-INTENSIVE pictures of the roof details, which are of limited interest to most viewers, I thumbnailed reduced images such that clicking on the thumbnail will bring up a medium-sized image, while clicking on the "Photo R--" will bring up a HUGE (~1Mb) image
(except the first one, for obvious reasons).
I did not want to cut down on the resolution of the roof detail photos or have pop-up ads, so these (and the CNJ #1000 detail photos) are costing me dearly in storage space and money! You'd BETTER enjoy all the roof details, which took an additional day to scan and load!
{Technically, the first two photos are NOT roof details,
but I've shown them in the sequence}
{All roof photos by Frank Walker, except as noted}
#R01 - a nice shot of of my shadow on the ground.
{photo(?) by S. Berliner, III}
Photo #R02 - #F/1 (front) end headlight from ground.
{photo by S. Berliner, III}
Photo R03 - #2 (rear) end from trailing diesel roof.
Photo R04 - #2 (rear) end from trailing diesel roof.
Photo R05 - Rear of clerestory.
Photo R06 - A-side (left) piping.
Ooh! Lookit! Those strange pots on top are NOT
exhausts! They must be air cleaners;
the exhausts are the slotted horizontal mufflers shown here, et seq.:
Photo R07 - right rear air cleaner.
Photo R08 - rear exhaust mufflers.
Photo R09 - all four mufflers.
Photo R10 - front blower and radiators.
Photo R11 - front blower, right front radiator, filler cap (which?), and odd open pipe.
Photo R12 - front blower and left front radiator.
Photo R13 - that odd open pipe and the filler cap.
Photo R14 - right front sand filler and cooling coil.
Photo R15 - front headlight and blower detail.
Photo R16 - more right front sand filler and cooling coil detail
(note hose in vent pipe).
Photo R17 - plumbing at rear of front radiator.
Photo R18 - front headlight.
Photo R19 - front of right front radiator.
Photo R20 - A (left) side from atop adjoining boxcar - overall.
Photo R21 - A (left) side from atop adjoining boxcar - forward.
Photo R22 - A (left) side from atop adjoining boxcar - rear.
Photo R23 - A (left) side from atop adjoining boxcar - center.
{Technically, the next three photos are NOT roof details,
but I've shown them in the sequence}
Photo R24 - right front, showing poling pocket.
{photo by S. Berliner, III}
Photo R25 - right rear, showing poling pocket.
{photo by S. Berliner, III}
Photo R26 - #2 end (rear), showing brakestand and brakewheel.
{photo by S. Berliner, III}
This last shot is important; it established the location of that elusive brakestand
and brakewheel at the rear of the loco beyond any question!
{All roof photos by Frank Walker, except as noted}
SPECIAL COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Please be advised that the images shown on this page, unless otherwise noted, are reproduced here by special permission of the Portola Railroad Museum and may NOT be reproduced further in any form, or for any purpose, without without prior written permission of the photographer, S. Berliner, III, AND of the Feather River Rail Society or the Portola Railroad Museum.
I'll have to look at (and to scan in) that I-R manual and see if I can identify some of the details about which I am unsure.
If you catch me out in any errors (quite likely); please let me know.
{31 Aug 07}
Assuming possible duplications are wrong, there are at least 8 ALCo-GE-IR (and just GE-IR) boxcab units surviving and, if they are all right, there are at least 7 units surviving.
In addition there are three (3) Baldwin-Westinghouse ARMCO units and CNR #77 and CP #7000.
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There are now more than fifty-five (55) BOXCAB pages;
see the main Boxcabs page and the Boxcabs INDEX.
To contact S. Berliner, III, please click here.
I deliberately have NOT included this page of detailed photos of Foley Bros. #110-1 in this tour;
they are so image-intensive that you should only have come here intentionally.
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