page_title: GE boxcab
section_title: Surviving examples
hierarchical_section_title: GE boxcab / Surviving examples
caption_attribution_description: This is the only surviving 100-ton double-engine GE boxcab - a diesel-electric switching locomotive. This was sitting on the siding in Portola, CA across from the Western Pacific Railroad Museum. I believe this would have been built before 1930. Note that the flatcar has an extra set of flanges wheels on each of its trucks to handle this heavy locomotive.
context_page_description: The GE boxcabs, sometimes also GE IR boxcabs, were diesel-electric switcher locomotives succeeding the ALCO boxcabs. The locomotives were built by General Electric and Ingersoll Rand without ALCO. Production lasted from 1928 till 1930. These boxcabs were often termed oil-electrics to avoid the use of the German name Diesel, unpopular after World War I.
context_section_description: The only surviving GE boxcab is the 100-ton unit built in December 1929 and delivered to the contractor Foley Brothers in January 1930. It was used with the road number 110-1 for pulling coal trains in a Northern Pacific Railway owned mine in Coalstrip, Montana till it was withdrawn somewhere in the 1960s and later ended up in the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA. In December 2011 it was moved to the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento CA.
caption: Foley Brothers 110-1 sitting on the siding in Portola, CA across from the Western Pacific Railroad Museum. The flatcar has an extra set of flangless wheels on each of its trucks to handle this heavy locomotive.
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