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)
This site has now been visited 
times since the counter was installed.
[I added three pages of detailed photos of the CNJ #1000 (120 photos) and a page
of detailed photos of the only surviving 108-tonner, Foley Bros. #110-1 (35 photos).
(16 Aug 2005)
Since Sep 00, there has been an extremely-detailed and accurate site focusing exclusively on the earliest history of the ALCo-GE-IR (AGEIR) locos, John F. Campbell's "ALCO / General Electric / Ingersoll-Rand (AGEIR) Diesel-Electric Locomotives" site; I heartily recommend it to you! John Campbell has since added a complete roster of all the ALCo-GE-IR boxcab locos built in the first production run, totalling 33 units, from 1925 to 1930, but not the later Bi- and Tri-Power or GE-IR units.
I-R found an old brochure on the original boxcabs; it (a xerocopy) arrived 18 May 98 and is a gold mine! I-R gave me permission (19 May 98) to reproduce it, which I plan to do on a new page (or pages), starting with my Ingersoll-Rand page, on which I've already listed the boxcab photos and illustrations therein. I-R uses the term "box-type cab" and all units are double ended (two engineer's control stands).
(16 Aug 2005)
The brochure is undated but does present a dimensioned elevation drawing of the 1924 production GE Class 404-OE-120-4HM840G "double-ended" demonstrator #9681 (later CNJ #1000); note that the drawing shows the exhaust stacks as symmetrical, which was not how they were actually mounted in production (offset to rear, except on B&O #1, on which they were offset to the front).
The front cover is in color and has been reproduced here in color; the inside eight pages and the back cover are in black-and-white. The illustrations on pages 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 have been extracted and follow the full pages:
PAGE 2 | PAGE 3
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PAGE 4 | PAGE 5
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PAGE 6 | PAGE 7
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PAGE 8 | FRONT COVER
(Photos of GE Demo Brochure courtesy of P. Bergs - all rights reserved)
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"ENGINEER'S POSITION SHOWING CONTROLS, AIR BRAKES AND
INSTRUMENTS"
(Extracted photo from Page 2 of GE Demo Brochure courtesy of P. Bergs - all rights reserved)
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"INTERIOR OF CAB SHOWING 300 H.P. INERSOLL-RAND OIL-ENGINE
DIRECT CONNECTED TO GENERAL-ELECTRIC GENERATOR"
(Extracted photo from Page 3 of GE Demo Brochure courtesy of P. Bergs - all rights reserved)
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"OIL-ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE NO. 8835 IN SERVICE IN THE NORTH STATION
TERMINAL YARDS OF THE BOSTON & MAINE R.R., BOSTON"
(Extracted photo from Page 4 of GE Demo Brochure courtesy of P. Bergs - all rights reserved)
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"404-OE-120-4HM840G OIL-ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE, OUTLINE AND
DIMENSIONS"
(Extracted elevation drawing from Page 7 of GE Demo Brochure courtesy of P. Bergs - all rights reserved)
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{Bear in mind the offset of the exhaust stacks as noted above.}
Here is Joshua Moldover's excellent line drawing of a 60-tonner
from his incredible Railroad Paintshop.
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ALCO-GE-IR 60-ton Boxcab Drawing © 1998 Joshua Moldover
Provided by the Railroad Paint Shop - paintshop.railfan.net
Used by permission
Here, courtesy of Bill Battle, a former ALCo Field Engineering Manager out of Schenectady, is an image cropped from the wider original ALCo production photo card showing Erie box cab #20 produced on order No S-1532 (form dated May 1925 on the back (see below) and stamped "Jul 23 1926" but dated May 1926 on the image on the obverse):
It would be my frontispiece if it weren't for that weird little stack and muffler.
Builder's Production Card for Erie Boxcab #20:
Obverse (full) image of card courtesy of Bill Battle
Reverse image of card courtesy of Bill Battle (obverse above)
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I'm grateful for any help, but that's inappropriate for a diesel devotée -
steamers are grateful; internal combustors should just be exhausted! :·)
To contact S. Berliner, III, please click here.
To tour the Boxcabs pages in sequence, the arrows take you from the Boxcabs index page to this first Boxcabs page, to continuation pages 3 and up, then 100-tonner LIRR #401 and her sisters, survivor boxcabs (with map) and survivor notes, survivor CNJ #1000 (the very first), Ingersoll-Rand boxcabs (with instruction manual), other (non-ALCo/GE/I-R) boxcabs, Baldwin-Westinghouse boxcabs, odd boxcabs, and finally model boxcabs.