Boxcab

A boxcab, in railroad terminology, is a term for an electric locomotive in which the machinery and crew areas were enclosed in a box-like superstructure.

It was also applied in Australia to Victorian Railways' "E" class second series electric locomotives.

Most North American boxcabs were built a few years before and after 1930, the most prominent builders being Baldwin and Westinghouse, GE and Alco.

Locomotives had either a box-like body of equal height along their whole length including the cabs, the boxcab; or else the cabs were inset from the ends and a lower nose or 'hood' section protruded beyond.

[1][2] Boxcabs did not have heavily styled ends or a superstructure consisting of multiple structures, although the prototype diesel/oil-electric, GE no.