(moved from this B&O #50 page 17 Dec 02)
This site has now been visited 
times since the counter was installed.
Back on 03 Jul 82 [before I became a boxcab fan(atic)], I was out at the National
Museum of Transport (as it was called then) and got this photo of #50 out in the
open:
It is now the
Museum of Transportation.
BEEN THERE - DONE THAT! 01 Jul 00 - just back from
Boxcab Trips 2a and 2b and have now visited and documented all surviving U.S.
boxcabs! Montréal, anyone? Eheu! Been there and done that,
again (after far too many years), on 25 Jun 2002.
I was also out at MoT on 17 Jun 2004 and even more photos will follow.
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 boxcabs (including e, on
map on main Survivors page) are noted on
the Electric Boxcabs page.
Other surviving odd boxcabs are noted on the
Odd Boxcabs continuation page.
*. ___-ton, 1,800-hp Baltimore & Ohio #50.
(Alton, GM&O #1200
Builder's Plate Data
{to follow}
B&O Class DP-1 #50 at Museum of
Transportation,
Please note that MoT has a new URL http://www.thetrainmuseum.org/; you
may wish to bookmark it.
B&O #50 is the first U. S. passenger
boxcab, B&O Class AA (or DP-1), an August 1935 EMC predecessor of an
EMD FP unit {NOT an ALCo-GE-IR unit - see
Boxcabs continuation page 2}.
(13 Oct 07)
"First U. S." unit because Canadian Locomotve Company
built a big, double unit, #
9000, to Baldwin-Westinghouse designs, for the
Canadian National Railway in 1929 (and it ran well into the
1940s).
B&O #1 (#195, #8000), also at the Museum of
Transportion, was the third production boxcab (second 60-ton unit).
EMC B&O #50 - James Mischke of Panther
Hollow Press e-mailed me on 26 Dec 97 as follows (slightly edited):
Saw your ALCo-GE-IR boxcab web page and have information to add. B&O #50
at the St. Louis Museum of
Transportation is not an ALCo-GE-IR boxcab, it is an Electro-Motive Corp.
{EMC preceded EMD} model AA {1,800-hp Class DP-1} passenger locomotive.
It was a very historic diesel locomotive, the first passenger road locomotive not
articulated to its train. Placed in Royal Blue service {Jersey City - Washington
DC.} on 8/22/35, it was {given a shovelnose and} transferred to Abraham Lincoln
service (Chicago - St. Louis) on B&O subsidiary Alton in 4/36. Following the
B&O-Alton breakup, Alton bought it in 5/43. Following WWII, it {was restored
to its pure boxcab appearance and} became GM&O #1200 and served in local freight
service and on the Joliet commuter train. Retired in 1956, {it was} donated by
the scrapper to St. Louis in late 1958. It probably deserves its own web page
{I couldn't agree more - here it is - SB,III - also, see
Boxcabs Continuation page 2 about still other EMD boxcabs}.
B&O #1, also at the Museum of Transportion, the second 60-ton unit and third
production boxcab built, is an ALCo-GE-IR loco {NOT an EMC/EMD
unit - see the #1 Survivor Boxcab Page}.
FYI, the B&O has an Historical Society.
B&O #50 NOTES:
Here is #50 taken by Arnold Hans Morscher in 1995 at the St. Louis museum (brought
to my attention by the ever-helpful Mark Laundry - thanks, Mark!):
(photo from A. H. Morscher's site)
I'm glad she's still with us but was sad to see her so deteriorated from when I last
saw her in St. Louis some 10 years ago or so before. An engine so historic
deserves to be indoors (at the B&O museum!). WELL! Today (16 Sep
99) came an e-mail about #50; they "completely repainted this loco last year"!
Here, through the great courtesy of the
Denver Public Library, from their
Western History/Genealogy Photograph Collection, is an 11 Aug 1939 Otto C.
Perry photograph of B&O #50 as the Abraham Lincoln shovelnose; you can
almost hear that engine pulsing:
(Otto Perry photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History
Collection,
call number 00002549, from the Otto C. Perry Collection;
Reproduced here by specific written permission of the Denver Public Library,
Western History Collection - all rights reserved to the Denver Public Library.)
On 04 Jan 03, I had promised more on the Abraham Lincoln; here we go:
Baltimore & Ohio train, engine number 50, engine type EMC 1800HP B-B
Call Number OP-2595, from the Otto C. Perry Collection)
Train #3, The Abraham Lincoln; 9 cars. Photographed: leaving Chicago, Ill., July 25,
1940.
Baltimore & Ohio train, engine number 50, engine type EMC 1800HP B-B
Call Number OP-2594, from the Otto C. Perry Collection)
Train #2, The Abraham Lincoln. Photographed: Chicago, Ill., July 25, 1940.
(Otto Perry photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library, Western History
Collection)
Baltimore & Ohio train, engine number 50, engine type EMC 1800HP B-B
Call Number OP-2596, from the Otto C. Perry Collection)
Train #2, The Abraham Lincoln; 9 cars. Photographed: leaving St. Louis, Mo., August
16, 1940.
The MoT came through nobly for us; here are three original GE builder's photos from
the MoT's files (stating that GE built the loco for Electro-Motive Corp.) and a photo of
the engineer's position in the operating compartment taken more recently at the MoT
(that's the Little Joe through the window):
(photos courtesy of the Museum of Transportation Library, St. Louis -
all rights reserved)
[thumbnailed images - click on pictures for larger images]
My thanks to the MoT for this courtesy.
To go along with such detail, I copied the San Diego Railroad Museum/Pacific
Southwest Railway Museum) photo above, cropped it to a bare minimum and
artificially lightened it to the point where the roof detail disappears, in order to show
the undercarriage better:
(cropped and lightened copy of photo courtesy of the San Diego Railroad Museum/Pacific Southwest Railway Museum -
all rights reserved)
Using the front view as a reference and assuming the #50 is the same width as the
#1 (9' 6½" - possibly inaccurate), I calculate from the relative height that the
#50 carbody is 51' 1½" long, end to end.
Now here's a big surprise; I found a postcard I'd long since lost!
It shows #50 as she was originally restored at the NMT BUT out
in front of the EMD plant in McCook, Illinois, having been moved from
the NMT to celebrate the 50th anniversary of EMC/EMD on 09 Sep 1972:
(13 Oct 07)
(postcard of B&O #50 at EMD McCook, Ill., 09 Sep 1972
from the collection of S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
[click on thumbnailed picture for larger image]
The picture is by Paul L. Schumann on an Audio Visual Designs card.
[EMD 50th Anniversary Logo from back of card]
Here's a similar picture taken up closer:
(unprovenanced picture of B&O #50 at EMD McCook, Ill., ca. 09 Sep 1972
from the collection of S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
[Unfortunately, I do not recall from whence I got this image; I'll
happily make amends if the appropriate party reminds me.]
I had written elsewhere "Don't overlook that second-earliest production passenger diesel of all time" but the note belongs here. To continue, "(I'm kidding in a way, since the first was the 100-ton ALCo-GE-IR Erie oil-electric #22 used by IR in the first road passenger test in 1927 noted on the main BOXCABS page and detailed on the I-R Boxcabs page)". She still exists; I refer to B&O #50, mentioned by Mischke, above, at the Museum of Transportation (formerly called National Museum of Transport, at Barrett Station Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63122, 314-965-7998). She was the first passenger boxcab to stay in that service, an EMC predecessor of an FP unit {NOT an ALCo-GE-IR unit}, and went though several incarnations. She's in good company, though; the Museum also has a very early 60-ton, 300HP boxcab, B&O Class DS-1-A #1 (later B&O #195/#8000), which, as noted above, IS an ALCo-GE-IR unit (prejudiced, ain't I?)!
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!
Other EMC/EMD Boxcabs
Summary material only (not about survivors) - some material moved from Boxcabs Continuation page 2 on 08 Jul 2002
and moved again to Other EMC/EMD Boxcabs on 17 Dec 02, q.v.
An early EMD boxcab designed for freight operation was their Model 60; this boxcab is
very close in shape and appearance to the ALCos. The locomotive is a 400hp
boxcab ca. 1930-31 and was equipped with a Winton 148 gasoline engine.
Two units, #463 and #464, went to the Lehigh Valley in 1930 and a third, #465, to
the Steelton & Highspire Railroad {that's the steel mill immediately south of
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as their #30 - SBIII} in 1931. This info. supplied by
my Web ami à Québec.
See also Boxcabs page 6
- More Miscellaneous Boxcabs and
EMD pages.
EMC built two other 1,800-hp passenger boxcabs in 1935, their demonstrators #511 and #512 were virtually identical to #50 but were scrapped in 1938*. Then they built nine boxy-cab units for SF and CB&Q in 1935-36 (see Pinkepank/Marre).
* - When #511 and #512 were scrapped, their trucks were used for NW4 builder's numbers 823 and 834, MP #4102 and #4103, that same year.
[Thanks to Mark Laundry for this information.]
St. Louis Car Co. and EMC also teamed up to build one or more 800HP straight boxcab locos for the Rock Island:
I seem to have overlooked the appearance in
TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA #20
of AT&SF #1a and #1b:
(Image from TRAIN SHED
CYCLOPEDIA #20)
EMC built these boxcabs for the SF in 1935; they originally had the beetle brows (semi-streamlined radiator housings) over the cabs,as pictured above, and were later rebuilt in 1938 from B-B to rather-weird 1-A-A - 1-A-A locos, having a leading idler wheelset added to the front end of each front truck. #1A was renumbered to #1 abd #1B to #10. To further confuse things, both units were then modified with semi-turret cabs and by fitting that odd extra axle to the rear trucks, as well, and then, in a fiendish move clearly intended to totally demoralize railfans, #1B-cum-#10 was redesignated a booster unit and renumbered to 2nd #1A! As if THAT weren't bad enough, in 1948 #1B-cum-#10-cum-#1A was again rebuilt, with a mild shovelnose and Blomberg trucks, and renumbered to #2611! Finally, in 1953, both units were rebuilt into E8Bs! All this is from Marre (1995) and he allows that the most significant result of all this "was the Accounting Department record"; I couldn't agree more.!
There is a fantastic history and photo gallery of "The Twins", and a superb HO model of one of them, by Werner Schneider, at ATSF_Class_1.
See also a separate EMC/EMD Boxcabs page on which I have reproduced much of Werner's history and illustrations, with his kind permission.
EMC made four other units in this series but they were the Burlington's 600HP (later 900HP) Budd-bodied stainless steel streamlined Zephyrs, not by any stretch boxcabs.
E6 Boxcabs
Summary material only (not about survivors) - some material moved to E6 Boxcabs on 17 Dec 02, q.v.
Even less well-known but far wilder are the two 1,000hp E6
boxcabs (yes, Virginia, 1,000hp E6 boxcabs!), #751 and 752,
built by EMC in 1940 for the Rock Island; they were basically an E6b but with only one
prime mover and a boxcab control stand and baggage area where the second engine
would have otherwise been installed.
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 electric boxcabs (including e, on
map on main Survivors page) are noted on
the Electric Boxcabs page.
Other surviving odd boxcabs are noted on the
Odd Boxcabs continuation page.
There are now more than fifty-five (55) BOXCAB pages;
see the main Boxcabs page and the Boxcabs INDEX.
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