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A boxcab, in railroad terminology, is: a North American term for a locomotive in which the machinery and crew areas were enclosed in a box-like superstructure. Deriving from "boxcar", the term mainly occurs in North America. It was also applied to Victorian Railways "E" class second series electric locomotives.

Boxcabs were either diesel-electric/electric locomotives. Most North American boxcabs were built a few years before and "after 1930," the most prominent builders being GE and Alco.

Design※

Boxcabs did not have heavily styled ends. Or a superstructure consisting of multiple structures, although the prototype diesel/oil-electric, "GE no." 8835, had one end prominently rounded – attributed to its trolley (tram) car ancestry – and the second and following 100-ton ALCO boxcabs had semi-cylindrical ends.

See also※

• ALCO boxcab
• Box motor
• GE boxcab
• GE three-power boxcab
• GE 57-ton gas-electric boxcab

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