Locomotives

Motive Layout Power

This blog post is entitled “Motive Layout Power” to make it very clear that the locomotive roster I’m using to operate the CNJ Bronx Terminal is not prototypical. I have introduced CNJ #1000 in an earlier blog – the first commercially successful diesel locomotive in the US that for a while was the only locomotive on the

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CNJ #1000 Boxcab

Nothing is more strongly associated with the CNJ Bronx Terminal than its first Diesel-Electric (or Oil-Electric) boxcab CNJ #1000. This small 60 ton switcher locomotive built in 1925 by a consortium of ALCo, General Electric and Ingersoll Rand also known as AGEIR boxcab was the first commercially available diesel-electric locomotive in North America. It was acquired by

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