Updated: 16 Aug 2009, 20:10 ET
(Created 28 Aug 2000)
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S. Berliner, III's
A "new" boxcab!
Ingersoll-Rand 1925 Demonstrator #9681
(later CNJ #1000)
(ALCo builders photo S-1484 - source uncertain;
possibly from 1980s AAR flyer)
This page of NOTES was split off from the Survivors Roster page
and the engine listings renumbered on 10 Sep 99.
There will now be separate pages for each surviving boxcab.
On the Survivor Boxcabs page:
times since the counter was installed.
Here's a photo of IR #90 taken by Britisher Tony Green on holiday here
in the States in 1978 "mainly because it looked similar to an old
diesel locomotive I had seen on the Kent & East Sussex Railway - the
boxcab from the Ford Motor plant at
Dagenham":
(16 Aug 09)
Only a year later, Tom Lawson took the B&W shot, shown below, in Dearborn.
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?
More photos were taken and will follow (as of 01 Jul 00).
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.
Ed Bommer, "a former Staten Islander", wrote that, about 3 years ago (ca. 1995?), he "was at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, and noticed an IR box cab, freshly painted and lettered for the Chicago & Northwestern and with brand new wood flooring installed. Sad to say {I} do not remember the number."
Marre (1995 - see Boxcabs Bibliography) pictures #90 in her 1976 Bi-Centennial livery.
At the HF Museum on 25 Aug 99, I found #90 repainted in gleaming I-R basic black (additional photos to follow shortly).
Tom Lawson, who is the source of so much info. on UC #11, sent me this picture of I-R #90, G.E. #10132 of October 1926, taken at Dearborn, Michigan, on 13 July 79:
It would now appear that there are seven (7) ALCo-GE-IR (and just GE-IR or GE alone) boxcab units surviving.
In addition there are three (3) Baldwin-Westinghouse ARMCO units and #77 and #7000.
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.
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