Box Cabs

Frank Hicks · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2005 10:06 pm

Scott wrote:

I love this forum. Thanks for all the response. I also remember several MILW steeplecab switchers - any left?

Nope. The three (I think?) MILW steeplecabs were all scrapped.

Frank Hicks · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2005 10:24 pm

scrmcurator wrote:

Uhm, aren't the AEM-7s and E60s technically boxcabs? Or are they classified differently?

You have a point. An AEM-7 is pretty much a straight box body with little streamlining; the E60 has something of a pug nose, so I don't know.

scrmcurator wrote:

Also, I've always wondered how the Little Joes and New Haven "Jets" are classified. They aren't boxcabs, and they aren't steeplecabs either. What do you call them?

I would just call them streamlined locomotives. Anything like a NH EP-4 or EP-5, GN W-1, GG-1 or Little Joe is an example of a streamlined electric locomotive just like a PA or an E-unit is a streamlined diesel.