Updated: 17 Mar 2005, 16:00 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)
(Photo from TRAIN SHED
CYCLOPEDIA #43
(01 Aug 04)
The rest of the page is unindexed; scroll away.
There are now separate pages for each surviving boxcab.
On the Survivor Boxcabs page:
times since the counter was installed.
I was also out at MoT on 17 Jun 2004 and even more photos will follow.
(28 Jul 04)
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.
G.E. CO. NO. U.S.A. A.L.CO. NO.{to follow}
60-ton, 300-hp B&O Class DS-1-A #1 (later B&O #195/#8000) at
Museum of Transportation,
Second unit built (but third delivered), delivered 24 Dec 1925 at Clifton Yard of B&O's Staten Island Transit Line, moved across Hudson to B&O 26th Street yard on Manhattan waterfront on 26 Dec 1925, active at least through 1956. Fell off car float into Hudson 02 Jun 1944; reconditioned and tested out at 325-hp. (Museum formerly called National Museum of Transport - Barrett Station Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63122, 314-965-7998).
Back on 03 Jul 82, I was out at the National Museum of Transportation (as it was called then) and got a photo of #1 sequestered (fancy term for "hidden away" or "jammed in") under the open shed roof (that's all the access I could get):
Photo 03 Jul 82 by and © 2000 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved.
B&O #50, also at the Museum of Transportion, the first passenger boxcab, is an EMC predecessor of an FP unit {NOT an ALCo-GE-IR unit - see the #50 Survivor Boxcab Page}.
FYI, the B&O has an Historical Society.
Ed Bommer, who wrote me about #316, is "a former Staten Islander" and has
"some familiarity with B&O 1 (195 and 8000 in its lifetime) now at St. Louis.
At one of its shop visits to Clifton, a pair of large, home-made external
mufflers were installed on the roof. The last I saw it was after
repainting and renumbering as 8000 in 1956 at Clifton. It looked brand
new and was on a car float heading up the Bay to the 26th St. B&O yard."
Much as I greatly appreciate the TLC given #50 by the St. Louis folks, this
B&O locomotive and its sister, #1, REALLY belong at the
B&O Museum in Baltimore! We need to arrange some (iron)
horse-trading.
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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NOTES on B&O #1 (#195, #8000) :
B&O #8000, an 1925 Ingersol-Rand Box Cab in E. St. Louis, 6/60 {sic}
Photographer: F. Byerly (JSF Collection)
(image from Bill Russell's Pennybridge site).
[Thumbnail image - click on the picture for the full image.]
(01 Aug 04)
Photos of B&O #1 at MoT, St. Louis, 17 Jun 2004.
(01 Aug 04)
She doesn't look very good, especially since some savage cut off her radiator
tubes before the Museum aquired her, but she's really rather sound.
Lighting was awful and the museum was all but closed down due to a power
failure when I arrived after a half-hour detour because Barrett Station Road
was closed only a block from the Museum, but the staff couldn't have been
nicer to me! She remains, however, rather inaccessible; my host, Nick
Ohman, Curator of Library and Archives, gave me leeway to climb around a
bit and even up on the walkway of an adjoining later diesel to get some of the
detail (thanks, Nick!):
(17 Mar 05)
B&O #1/195/8000 at Museum of Transport, St.
Louis, Missouri, 17 June 2004
(17 Jun 2004 photos by and © 2004 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
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