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WESTINGHOUSE BOXCAB

Oil-Electric ("Diesel") Locomotives

There are now more than fifty (50) BOXCAB pages;
see the main Boxcabs page and the Boxcabs INDEX.

This site has now been visited times since the counter was installed.

- much of this page duplicates the Baldwin page - they will both be edited and the Westinghouse boxcab catalog will be represented here more fully.

PAGE INDEX:

Except for specific coverage of the first large passenger diesel, CNR's 1929 #9000, this is an unindexed browsing page - scroll away!

(16 Aug 04)

1930 Westinghouse Oil-Electric catalog is reproduced herein,

with List of Units, and the Complete Text.

I will reproduce the photographs in the catalog as soon as I get the flatbed scanner going; see CN #77 for more on Westinghouse units.

[First of all, I want to credit Bill Russell, Penny Bridge; we seem to be linking back and forth but he has the most compendious site about NY-area railroading, where most boxcabs lurked, with tons of information.

Second, take a look at Mark Laundry's Yard Limit Diesel Switcher Spotter's and Reference Guide, a site about early diesel switchers, especially a 1994 paper by Benn Coifman on " The Evolution of the Diesel Locomotive in the United States", with an excellent history of the ALCo-GE-IR consortium, as well as McKeen, Westinghouse/Baldwin, Hamilton/EMC/EMD, and Pullman's efforts.]

Baldwin, Westinghouse, EMD, Brill, Whitcomb, the PRR, and many other manufacturers and railroad shops jumped on the ALCo-GE-IR bandwagon and built oil-electric/diesel boxcabs. I'll try to cover most of them as I go along.

Other surviving electric (and any other odd) boxcabs are noted on the Odd Boxcabs continuation page.

Baldwin and Westinghouse cooperated on many early boxcab projects; their boxcabs seemed to have gotten short shrift in these boxcabs pages; this new (27 Sep 99) page will attempt to pull together all the Baldwin and Westinghouse boxcabs loco information previusly scattered thoughout the boxcabs pages.

BLW does NOT stand for Baldwin-Lima-Westinghouse, it stands for Baldwin Locomotive Works.

Two exceedingly-successful early Baldwin-Westinghouse oil-electric boxcabs were the paired ("semi-permanently-coupled") Long Island Rail Road 330HP 87-ton (each) #403A/B, "Mike and Ike" (s/n 60185/6), LIRR Class AA-4, built in September of 1927, which are pictured and covered in more detail on the LIRR Boxcabs page. They were later split and soldiered on both on- and (later) off-island long after most other boxcabs were scrapped or in museums; John Scala notes that both ended up scrapped in late 1955. I've copied the picture here, as well:

(photo of one 403 at PRR 4th Street Yard -
photo from Bill Russell's Penny Bridge)

Baldwin and Westinghouse built four 300-hp boxcabs in 1929 which were intended to be simplified versions of the ALCo-GE-IR consortium's offerings; they are not well documented but appear to be the prototype, Westinghouse #7, Great Lakes Steel (2), and Western Electric (1). A 1929 360-hp unit for H. K. Porter (the steam loco builder) may have been similar, as may a 1930 300-hp Illinois Steel Co. unit.

In 1929, Westinghouse and Canadian Locomotive Company teamed up to build CNR a two-unit, 2x1,330-hp, 2x162½ ton boxcab pair, #9000, claimed as the first large diesel locomotive in North America. It immedately ran between Montréal and Vancouver (coast to coast) in regular CN passenger service, showing the long-distance capability of big oil-electrics. During WWII, it was split as #9000 and #9001, and #9000 was armo(u)red and disguised to resemble a boxcar; this was to fool the Japanese lurking off the West Coast. Later, both units were scrapped (Pinkepank, 1967, Pp BLW-28 and -29).
Page BLW-29 - 1929 Westinghouse-Canadian Locomotive Company CNR).

(16 Aug 04)

HURRAH for Louis Marre (1995)! On page 409 he shows the original #9000 pair AND the ARMO(U)RED version of single 9000! The latter had been re-engined with an EMD 16-cylinder 567 and armo(u)red in 1943 but never saw service in the armo(u)red configuration, which was stripped off after the war.

- [I have greatly expanded the coverage of #9000, with many more pictures.] (16 Aug 04)

Here are some excellent photographs of #9000 from the collection of the Canada Science and Technology Museum at Railways > Historic CN 1919-1963 > Locomotives and Equipment: (16 Aug 04)

CNR #9000
(photos property of, and reproduced here by permission of,
the Canada Science and Technology Museum - all rights reserved to the Museum.
These images may NOT be copied or reproduced without specific, prior, written permission of CSTM.).

CSTM caption: "CNR 9000, the first mainline diesel, locomotive in Canada,
Dixie, Quebec, Canada, 1929, Photographer: unknown,
Subject: Diesel locomotives / Canadian Locomotive Company,
Image No.: CN000523, CSTMC/CN Collection" (this applies to the first picture; note that the second picture is from a slightly different vantage point).

Now, to the armo(u)red version (left side, right side, and right front - see the tiny front window?):

(16 Aug 04)

CNR #9000 armoured

CNR #9000 armoured
Image Nos.: CN001981, CN001982, and CN001983
(photos property of, and reproduced here by permission of,
the Canada Science and Technology Museum - all rights reserved to the Museum.
These images may NOT be copied or reproduced without specific, prior, written permission of CSTM.).

[These images were so dark as to be virtually illegible and I have taken the liberty of lightening them artificially to show the detail (at the sacrifice of the tarp and sky).]

After the war, the armo(u)r was stripped off and appears to have been simply replaced with sheet metal (right front in service, front, and rear): (16 Aug 04)

CNR #9000 de-armoured front CNR #9000 de-armoured rear
Image Nos.: CN004322, CN004321, and CN004320 (resp.)
(photos property of, and reproduced here by permission of,
the Canada Science and Technology Museum - all rights reserved to the Museum.
These images may NOT be copied or reproduced without specific, prior, written permission of CSTM.).

[These images were so dark as to be virtually illegible and I have taken the liberty of lightening them artificially to show the detail (at the sacrifice of the tarp and sky).]

How convenient! TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA #20 just happens to picture the big 1,330HP 12-cylinder 12 x 12 Beardmore engine that powered the #9000 [before it was re-engined in 1943 with a 16-cylinder EMD 567 (Marre, 1995)]: (16 Aug 04)

(Photo from TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA #20)
[thumbnail image - click on picture for bigger image]

The 1929 CNR #77 noted on the Survivors map at "C" [I changed the symbol] appears to be a variant of the Baldwin-Westinghouse Visibility Cab unit but without end platforms and with a notch in the body side to allow access to the cab, thus making it a semi-boxcab or a hood unit with an end cab and a blob on the right front (if the cab is at the rear):

It is up at the Musée Ferroviare Canadien/Canadian RR Museum in St. Constant (Delson), Québec, Canada, in company with a 1914 GE electric boxcab. #77 was built by the Canadian Locomotive Company to Baldwin -Westinghouse designs and is the oldest surviving CNR diesel (although it has been re-engined, while retaining its original electricals). I was up there in Montréal on 25 Jun 2002.

Note the side door, recessed back to the "shoulder" (window area) on the side of #77/7700; many later Visibility Cab units had such or even a short walkway from the door to the front on each side (and both ends on steeple-cab double-engined units like WEMCO #12 - Marre), with no shoulder outboard from that door (a few last units even had superchargers - Marre). Good ol' Mark Laundry came through for me (by accident) with this picture of Detroit Marine Terminals #9, showing exactly that odd front walkway:

Joseph Testagrose posted this picture to the Net on 29 Feb 00, indicating it was taken at Detroit, Michigan, probably in Mar 64. Since DMT is not listed as an original purchaser, I hope to backtrack ownership and find out as what it started out (I wonder if it wasn't one of the three supercharged 1937 Great Lakes Steel units, #3, 4, or 5).

A 1930 Westinghouse oil-electric catalog (and a 1936 one from I-R) was reproduced in TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA #43.

The units listed in the 1930 catalog are as follows (summary list):

Canadian National Railways, Articulated 400-Hp., Oil Electric Rail Car for Passenger and Baggage Service, Road Numbers 15817 and 15818

Canadian National Railways, 300-Hp., Oil Electric Rail Car for Passenger and Baggage Service, Road Numbers 15826-30 inc.

Reading Railroad, 300-Hp., Oil Electric Rail Car for Passenger, Baggage and Mail Service Road Numbers 70 and 74

Pennsylvania Railroad, 300-Hp., Oil Electric Rail Car for Passenger and Baggage Service, Road Numbers 4663 and 4664

Canadian National Railways, 350-Hp., Oil Electric Rail Car for Passenger and Baggage Service, Road Numbers 15832-15838 inc.

Great Northern Railway Co., 400-Hp., Oil Electric Rail Car for Baggage and Mail Service, (no number shown)

Erie Railroad, 600-Hp., Oil Electric Rail Car for Baggage and Mail Service, Road Number 5000

Westinghouse Standard Car, 400-Hp., Oil Electric Rail Car for Passenger, Baggage and Mail Service, Road Number 20

Long Island Railroad {sic}, Two 43.5-Ton Oil Electric Motive Power Units for Switching Service, Road Numbers 403-A and 403-B {sic}

Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company East Pittsburgh Works, 55-Ton, 300-Hp., Oil Electric Locomotive for Switching Service, Road Number 7

Western Electric Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 58-Ton, Oil Electric Locomotive for Switching Service, Road Number 1

American Rolling Mill Co., Butler, Pennsylvania, 74.5-Ton, Oil Electric Locomotive for Switching Service, Road Number B-70{sic}

American Steel & Wire Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 70-Ton, Oil Electric Locomotive for Switching Service, Road Number 1 {"Visibility" End Cab}

American Rolling Mill Co., Butler, Pennsylvania, 70-Ton, Oil Electric Locomotive for Switching Service, Road Number B-71{sic} {"Visibility" End Cab}

Canadian National Railways, 70-Ton, Oil Electric Locomotive for Switching Service, Road Number 7700, {now 77?, "Visibility" End Cab with side door}

Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Ecorse, Michigan, 70-Ton, Oil Electric Locomotive for Switching Service, Road Numbers 1 and 2 {"Visibility" End Cab}

Westinghouse Standard Locomotive, 70-Ton, Oil Electric Locomotive for Switching Service, Road Numbers 21 and 22 {"Visibility" End Cab}

Westinghouse Standard Locomotive, 110-Ton, Oil Electric Locomotive for Switching Service, Road Number 23 {"Visibility" Steeple Cab}

Canadian National Railways, Two 162.5-Ton, Oil Electric Motive Power Units for Freight or Passenger Service, Road Numbers 9000 and 9001

Built by The Canadian Locomotive Works on plans of The Baldwin Locomotive Works

under the supervision of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.

Here is the 1930 Westinghouse catalog:

Although there is no copyright notice anywhere in the issue, I want it perfectly clear
that this material comes directly from the TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA issue, edited only minimally.

TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA, No. 43

"Diesel and Oil Electrics from Westinghouse (1930) and Ingersoll-Rand (1936)"
64 Full-Size Pages Reprinted from the Original Catalogs - Newton K. Gregg, publisher, March 1976

{Front Cover - C. R. R. of N. J. 1000}

"Oil Electric Locomotives and Rail Cars, Special Publication 1880, June 1930, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburgh, Pa." (24 pp.), following.

{There is also a 1936 catalog of the first 113 Ingersoll-Rand boxcabs,
which is reproduced on the I-R Boxcabs Page 2.}

OIL ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES AND RAIL CARS

Single Power Plant Oil Electric Locomotives

300 AND 400 HP.

{End Views, Plan View, and Elevation of End Cab Single Power Plant Oil Electric Locomotive}

Double Power Plant Oil Electric Locomotives

600 AND 800 HP.

{End Views, Plan View, and Elevation of Steeple Cab Double Power Plant Oil Electric Locomotive}

OIL ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES AND RAIL CARS FOR SAFETY ... ECONOMY ... AVAILABILITY

Oil Electric Locomotives and Rail Car Data

Oil Electric Rail Car Data

Canadian National Railways

Articulated 400-Hp.,
Oil Electric Rail Car
for Passenger and Baggage
Service (Road Numbers 15817
and 15818)

Oil Electric Rail Car Data

Canadian National Railways

300-Hp.,
Oil Electric Rail Car
for Passenger and Baggage
Service

(Road Numbers 15826-30 inc.)

Oil Electric Rail Car Data

Reading Railroad

300-Hp.,
Oil Electric Rail Car
for Passenger, Baggage and
Mail Service

(Road Numbers 70 and 74)

Oil Electric Rail Car Data

Pennsylvania Railroad

300-Hp.,
Oil Electric Rail Car
for Passenger and Baggage
Service

(Road Numbers 4663
and 4664)

Oil Electric Rail Car Data

Canadian National Railways

350-Hp.,
Oil Electric Rail Car
for Passenger and Baggage
Service

(Road Numbers 15832-
15838 inc.)

Oil Electric Rail Car Data

Great Northern Railway Co.

400-Hp.,
Oil Electric Rail Car
for Baggage and Mail Service

(no number shown)

Oil Electric Rail Car Data

Erie Railroad

600-Hp.,
Oil Electric Rail Car
for Baggage and Mail Service

(Road Number 5000)

Oil Electric Rail Car Data

Westinghouse Standard Car

400-Hp.,
Oil Electric Rail Car
for Passenger, Baggage and
Mail Service

(Road Number 20)

Oil Electric Locomotive Data

Long Island Railroad {sic}

Two 43.5 - Ton
Oil Electric Motive Power
Units for Switching Service

(Road Numbers 403-A
and 403-B)

{Sample of specifications in exact Westinghouse format:}
(for full specs for #403, see separate #403 survivor page)}

Total Weight per unit                                               87,000 lb.
Classification of wheels                                            B {Bo}
Weight on drivers                                                   87,000 lb.
Number of driving axles                                              2
Maximum starting tractive effort (25.8% adhesion)                   22,400 lb.
Tractive effort - continuous rating                                  3,250 lb.
{etc.}

{end of sample - actual page goes on to list Maximum safe speed, Track gauge, Total wheel base, Rigid wheel base, Length overall, Length of cab, Width of cab, Height from rail to top of radiators, Diameter of drivers, Engines per cab, Type and fuel, Cylinders, Cycle, Rating {hp. at rpm.}, Generator, Auxiliary generator, Number and type of motors, Gear ratio, Control, Battery, Compressors, Radiators, Number of this type of unit furnished, and Year placed in service {1928}.
Sample of specifications in exact Westinghouse format;
(for full specs for #403, see separate #403 survivor page).}

Oil Electric Locomotive Data

Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company
East Pittsburgh Works

55 - Ton, 300-Hp.,
Oil Electric Locomotive
for Switching Service

(Road Number 7)

Oil Electric Locomotive Data

Western Electric Company
Baltimore, Maryland

58 - Ton,
Oil Electric Locomotive
for Switching Service

(Road Number 1)

Oil Electric Locomotive Data

American Rolling Mill Co.
Butler, Pennsylvania

74.5 - Ton,
Oil Electric Locomotive
for Switching Service

(Road Number B-70{sic})

{For full specs for #B-70, see separate #B-70 survivor page.}

Oil Electric Locomotive Data

American Steel & Wire Co.
Cleveland, Ohio