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Chicago & Northwestern
Oil-Electric Box Cab
Diesel
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Scratch Built by Tom Mix
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Prototype Description
C&NW Box Cab Oil-Electric Diesel
Class AGEIR 60 - 300 Horsepower
Joint Builders Consortium AGEIR - ALCO, General Electric, and
Ingersoll-Rand
Built 1926 - ALCO Order No. S1532 - ALCO Builders No. 66679
General Electric Builders No. 10023
Fan Cooled Radiators on Roof - “Squat Pot” Exhaust Stacks
Footboard Pilots
Retired and Scrapped in 1956
Erie Box Cab Diesel No. 20 Very Similar in Design
Model Overview
C&NW Oil-Electric Box Cab Diesel - Proto:48
Scratch Built by Master Craftsman Tom Mix
DCC and Sound Installed
Prewar Detailing
Modeled After Road No. 1000
Construction
Features
Brass
Construction
Commercial Brass Lost Wax Detail Castings
Fabricated Frame and Internal “Skeleton”
Scratch Built Trucks - Equalized - Sprung Journals - Protocraft
Wheelsets
Hand Punched Rivet Detail
Roof Cooling Coils Scratch Built Using Individual Pieces - “See Through” Construction
Scale Operating Couplers on Pilots
Finish
Unpainted - Natural Brass Finish
Lettering - Graphics
Not Applicable
Mechanism
Canon Can Motor
Weaver Gearboxes - Custom Fabricated Gear Towers - Chain Drive
Electronics
Soundtraxx DCC and Sound Decoder
Operating Headlights
Research
Designed and Constructed Using C&NW Drawings and Prototype Photographs
C&NW Historical Society Reference Page - http://cnwhs.org/ageir/cnwageir2.html
Model Condition
New - Test Run - Displayed
Box and Packaging
Not Applicable - Boxed and Packaged Appropriately
Model Summary
Exceptional model of a unique prototype
The roof cooling coils display exceptional craftsmanship
One of a Kind Model
Photographs
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C&NW Oil Electric Box Cab Diesel
Listing Date
August 28,
2017 |
2895.00
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