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GE boxcab
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Unknown builder· from 1928· line of diesel-electric switcher locomotives
what is it?
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 to 1930.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 98 years ago, in 1928.
- 447 kW is about 5 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1928–1930
- status
- preserved
- number built
- 17
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Unknown builder
- designer
- General Electric
- operators
- Hoboken Shore Railroad, Ford Motor Company, AK Steel Holding, Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, Erie Railroad, Canadian National Railway
- top speed
- 56 km/h
- power
- 447 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Bo'Bo'
- nicknames
- Tin Horse
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5513319, Wikipedia: GE boxcab (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.