GE boxcab

The GE boxcabs, sometimes called GE IR boxcabs, were diesel-electric switcher locomotives that succeeded the ALCO boxcabs and were built by General Electric and Ingersoll Rand without ALCO. Production lasted from 1928 to 1930, and they were often called oil-electrics to avoid the German name Diesel, which was unpopular after World War I. A consortium of ALCO, GE and Ingersoll Rand had started series production of the ALCO boxcabs in 1925, building 26 of the 60-ton model and 7 of the 100-ton model by 1928. After ALCO withdrew, fourteen more were built, two 50-ton, eleven 100-ton and one experimental 120-ton unit, in the GE plant in Erie, Pennsylvania.