#1 B & O

#1 Baltimore & Ohio

B&O #1 diesel electric built by GE, Ingersoll-Rand and Alco in 1925 (not operational but complete)

300 HP, AAR B-B

The B&O #1 locomotive is claimed to be the second diesel-electric to enter commercial service.

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GE Ingersoll-Rand Boxcab Locomotives  These boxcabs were often termed oil-electrics to avoid the use of the German name Diesel, unpopular after World War I.

History, In 1912 GE combined for the first time an internal combustion engine with electric traction motors. Impetus for wider adoption of this technology was provided by improved control systems introduced around 1920 and the State of New York's Kaufman Act, which banned the use of steam locomotives within the New York metropolitan area. A consortium consisting of ALCO, GE and Ingersoll Rand started series production of the ALCO-Boxcabs in 1925. The locomotives was built in the GE plant in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Has chassis and running gear, generator, traction motors and controls from GE, and Ingersoll Rand provided the diesel engine. The diesel engine driving a main generator of 600 volts DC with four axle-hung traction motors.  The underframe was cast iron. The radiator system was sitting on the roof of the locomotive. At each locomotive end a GE Model CD65 motor with a Sturtevant multivane fan was pressing air through the radiators.

60-Ton locomotive with a six-cylinder four-stroke in-line engine of 300 hp

 Power type: Diesel-electric Designer: General Electric Build date: 1925

Simlar to B&O 1000, see Model Railroader December 1961 Page 36

Specifications

Fuel type: Diesel
Prime mover: Ingersoll Rand RPM range: 550 maximum
Engine type: 4-stroke oil-electric (diesel)
Displacement: 942 cu in (15.4 l)
Generator: GE 200 kW (270 hp) 600 V
Traction motors: GE nose-suspended
Cylinders 60-ton units: 1 x 6
Cylinders 100-ton units: 2 x 6
Cylinder size: 10 in (254.0 mm) bore
Cylinder size: 12 in (304.8 mm) stroke
Couplers: AAR knuckle
Performance figures
Power output: 60-ton units: 300 hp (220 kW)
Purchased in 19xx for the museum by E.