Boxcab
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A boxcab, in
Boxcabs could also be diesel locomotives such as the case of the many AGEIR (Alco, General Electric, Ingersoll-Rand) boxcabs, but the overwhelming majority of them were electric.
Most North American boxcabs were built a few years before and after 1930, the most prominent builders being Baldwin and Westinghouse, GE and Alco.
Design
Locomotives had either a box-like body of equal height along their whole length including the cabs, the boxcab; or else the cabs were inset from the ends and a lower nose or 'hood' section protruded beyond.[1][2]
Boxcabs did not have heavily styled ends or a superstructure consisting of multiple structures, although the prototype diesel/oil-electric, GE no. 8835, had one end prominently rounded – attributed to its trolley (tram) car ancestry – and the second and following 100-ton ALCO boxcabs had semi-cylindrical ends.
See also
References
- ^ Ransome-Wallis, P., ed. (1959). "Electric Motive Power". Concise Encyclopædia of World Railway Locomotives. New Horizon Books. p. 175.
- ISBN 0-04-385042-1.
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