Prototype Information
Three manufacturers, ALCo, General Electric, and Ingersoll-Rand, came together under agreement to build the first production run of Diesel powered railroad engines in North America. These units were initially termed Oil-Electric Locomotives. At a later date this consortium acquired the acronym AGEIR, which is used today when indicating the builder of all locomotives constructed by this group's joint procedures.
The WWSL
The WWSL inherited steam locomotives from the OPLC for its main line operations. Management was not satified with the locomotives and looked for alternatives. Ingersol Rand management made a sales call and persuaded the WWSL to test their the 60 ton Oil-Electric Locomotive. The test was successful. In 1932 the WWSL began dieselization with an ALCo/GE/I-R Boxcab Diesel originally built in 1926 as part of an order by the CNW for yard switching.
The WWSL AGEIR locomotive is going to be an operating unit. I am going to use a Roundhouse /MDC boxcab shell that is an excellent rendition of the ALCo/GE/I-R Boxcab Diesel.body, and a Spectrum GE 44-ton chassie and mechanism.
Engineering
Side View
Interior view
Project Process
To be determined
Sound. I am going to install a Tsunami Sound decoder. I will use the Baldwin 608NA (normally aspirated, e.g. non-turbo) prime mover sound to imitate the Ingersol-Rand 6 cylinder prime mover.
Painting and Lettering Scheme. The basic paint scheme is black with white visibility stripes.
Resource
The above information was originally developed by John F. Campbell. After his passing in 2005, the information was saved by S.Berliner on his website http://sbiii.com/jfcageir/ageir4.html. On his passing in 2020, the website was lost. I found this information on https://web.archive.org/web/20210620004105/http://sbiii.com/jfcageir/ageir4.html.
Detailing a Roundhouse Boxcab
Painting a Roundhouse Boxcab
Painting a Roundhouse Boxcab - Part 2
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