There is a nice paragraph about the restoration.  There is also now a separate website with the latest on #3/11's restoration, replete with color photos!

Tom Lawson (13 Feb 99) writes that, though "the Railroad Club lists it having been built in 1926, the builder's data I have for the unit is that it was built 8/1927 as shop number 10134."  He has "an original negative taken of this locomotive on the 4th of July 1960 in transit on the Erie at Youngstown, Ohio.  It is lettered 'E.M.Co. 11' and it is still in its original carbody configuration at that time.  Now, once the locomotive got to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, it was numbered 3.  I photographed the boxcab IN SERVICE in both 1970 (original light blue paint scheme) and in 1973 (new red paint scheme), and it was plainly numbered 3 both times.  Also had a decal saying Union Carbide-Metals Division on it both times.  The Pullman-type end steps and extended cab window were modifications made to the locomotive at Muscle Shoals.  They only ran the locomotive from one end and the cab window was extended so they could see better around the curves in the plant.  The statement in your web page about this locomotive being modified like this for track inspection purposes is completely erroneous {emphasis mine - SB,III}!

While we're at it, that was NOT the original body configuration at all, not with that side radiator and those side cab door steps and cabling hooks!

The fellow mentioned on the Survivors page as having a builder's plate for #11 writes {edited only for format}, "I worked for the Erie from January 1960 until April 1964 starting out at Youngstown, Ohio.  The unit in question came into the shop with a hot box.  When I asked about the destiny of the unit I was told it was going to scrap.  I then asked the foreman if it was OK to remove the plate as I thought it was terrible that something like this would wind up in a junk pile.  He gave me permission and thats how I wound up with this plate.  I've carried this plate thru six moves and almost forty years where it finally rests in a room I built to house my train things."  Casts have been made of this plate and it is hoped some can be acquired for the Museum.  (08 Feb 00)

He was kind enough to send along a photo of U.C. #3 as E.M.Co. #11 at the Erie's Briar Hill shop in July 1960  (18 Feb 00):

(Crop of photo courtesy of R. Rohal - all rights reserved to photographer)  (18 Feb 00)

Well, I was there at the end of Jun 00 and saw her for myself - stay tuned!  Got aoot of detailed photos to scan.

Back in February of 1999, Tom Lawson was kind enough to send me photos of UC #3/11-cum-E.M.Co. #11 (I've just gotta get the story and timing squared away on this loco!).  Not having my scannner up and running and not yet having a digital camera, I set them aside and promptly forgot where!  Sorry 'bout that, Tom!  Here they are at long last (re-photographed with the digital, since the scanner still isn't working):

(Steve Cary photo courtesy of Thomas Lawson, Jr.)

Note also, however, that her tube radiators are FLAT, not CURVED to fit the roof, as on most older original units.

Then, note further that somewhere along the line, before 1960, she'd received those odd pipe and casting steps under the cab side door, and between 1960 and 1970, she'd had cable hooks added at the jacking points.

  -   Union Carbide numbering - clearly, from the above photographs, this unit was E. M. Co. (EMCO) #11; it was equally clearly Union Carbide #11 AND #3 at some stages in its checkered career.  It would appear that it became #3 AFTER conversion; I shall inquire of NARM.

Tom Anderson sent some more information about U.C. #11 on 21 Aug 02:

From his research and what he has been told, it started out as a demonstrator (he's unsure of the number at that time) for Inland Steel as per the paragraph below taken from his personal website (which I strongly recommend to you!):

"However, Union Carbide was actually the second 'owner' of this unit.  An article in the December 1970 issue of 'Trains' magazine titled 'Ingersoll-Rand, Catalyst for Dieselization' shows this unit as being loaned out as a demonstrator to Inland Steel of Chicago, Illinois from November 1926 to April 1927.  The unit was rejected for whatever reason by Inland Steel and was sent back to the factory and 'rebuilt' (may have received some upgrades such as bigger traction motors?) and sold to Union Carbide on the August 1927 date mentioned above. So this locomotive was actually built in the year 1926."

Then Union Carbide entered the picture:

"This is how the Boxcab looked the 9th day of August when it was received by Union Carbide in 1927.  This photograph was snagged from the 1976 TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA (#43) by an astute museum member.  According to hand written notes in the original G.E. Instruction Manual, the unit was received at 10:00 A.M. that day (the 9th) and was weighed in on the 10th at 134,080 lbs. (67 tons).  It was in operating condition on the 11th and put into shift work on the 15 of August.  In June, 1960 it was re-powered by Union Carbide with a 385 H.P. Caterpillar V-8 engine.  This boxcab was then transferred to Sheffield, Alabama in July 1960 where it was re-lettered to No. 3.  The unit was put on 'standby' status in 1969."

Now that's pretty specific (except that we're still in the dark about E.M.Co.)!  Thanks, Tom!

  NOT ANY MORE, we're not!  Tom writes (26 Sep 02) that they {edited slightly}

"found buried in some of the material that we received with the Boxcab, this sheet from an employee log book detailing the schematic of a charging generator used on 'No. 11' as it was designated at the time (8/26/55) (see attached file {below}).  But the interesting part is the title at the top of the page: 'Electro Metallurgical Company - A Division of Union Carbide And Carbon Corporation' (EMCO !)."

(image courtesy of NARM - all rights reserved)

It would now appear that there are seven (7) ALCo-GE-IR (and just GE-IR or GE alone) boxcab units surviving.

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.