Updated: 04 Dec 2008, 13:45 ET
(Created 01 Feb 2001)
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Survivor Boxcab Page
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)
{I make an exception to the AGEIR focus
for any surviving boxcab!}
There are now more than seventy-five (75) BOXCAB pages;
see the main Boxcabs page and the Boxcabs INDEX.
See the Boxcab Survivors Page
specifically for those others that survived.
1930 Westinghouse Catalog Data on B-73
There are now separate pages for each surviving boxcab; the redundant material is being removed from the main survivors pages (very slowly).
times since the counter was 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.
Here we are concerned with Baldwin-Westinghouse (so it's not an ALCo-GE-IR) survivor ARMCO (American Rolling Mills) #B-73, now at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum, Washington, Pennsylvania (40 miles south of Pittsburgh).
George P. Elwood has two great photographs of B-73 by Bill Navari on his fantastic photo site:
click here for the left side and here for the right side.
Bob Jordan kindly wrote on 01 Aug 2002 {minimally edited}:
* - "I noticed your comment re 'an odd link-and-pin draft box under the regular Janney at the cab end' and thought you might like the explanation. Agreed, it does look like some sort of link and pin arrangement, but what you saw still inside the draft box is actually the torched-off end from the shank of a standard knuckle coupler. This second, low mounted coupler was at the correct height to mate with charging buggies used in Armco's open hearth operation at Butler. The extra coupler had to be removed before delivery via RR to the Trolley Museum, and Armco found a torch to be most expeditious. When installed, the lower coupler was actually captured inside the box before the box was bolted in place, so the pin is inaccessible."
@ - "Regarding the damaged cab roof; the damage still evident was actually the third time Armco crews ran B-73 into the same fixed obstruction in the mill. Problem was, B-71 cleared the obstruction, and B-73 didn't. If you look really close at B-71 you'll find the cab roof on it is 6 inches lower than B-73. Evidently the crew occasionally forgot which loco they were running. Once B-73 can enjoy indoor storage, that damage will be repaired."
Thanks, Bob!
Here's a postcard view of B-73 as a thumbnail:
04 Dec 08
On 23 Sep 1999, Scott R. Becker, Executive Director of the PTM, was
kind enough to send me two photos of B-73 restored to her "last ARMCO
paint scheme", in her new old livery; the last she wore as she last
ran as an ARMCO Butler Works loco; my scanner wasn't running well and
I managed to misplace the photos. They turned up again 04 Dec
2008 (!) and here are cropped copies (replacing blurred scans posted
back in 1999):
04 Dec 08
Wandering around linked RR sites, I ran across Net buddy Mark Laundry's The Yard Limit, whereon were two photos of B-73 at the PaTM by John Smatlak (Railway Preservation Resources), one of the unit in museum service and one of the engine:
There are now more than seventy-five (75) BOXCAB pages;
see the main Boxcabs page and the Boxcabs INDEX.
See the Boxcab Survivors Page
specifically for those others that survived.
To contact S. Berliner, III, please click here.
{Not inserted into the Boxcabs Tour sequence, yet.}
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