{"id":1432,"date":"2008-09-09T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T16:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2008-11-25T22:04:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T03:04:01","slug":"repowering-a-brass-boxcab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"Repowering a Brass Boxcab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CNJ 1000 Boxcab<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>click on image to open the gallery&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rebuilding a Brass Boxcab\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/boxcab1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/160408b.jpg\" alt=\"brass boxcab cnj 1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the year I managed to find an old Astro Craft brass boxcab model of CNJ 1000, the engine used at the Bronx Terminal for several decades.<\/p>\n<p>Since it was a fairly old model, mid-60&#8217;s I would guess, the power drive on it was pretty much useless.\u00a0 I have been hunting for a suitable drive for it for some time.\u00a0 Knowing that North West Shortline produced the ideal unit was encouraging, but the fact that they discontinued to model was not.\u00a0 Fortunately when we were in California in July I found one at Whistle Stop Hobbies.<\/p>\n<p>It rained all day Sunday, so I could not mow the lawn.\u00a0 Very disappointed, I decided to return to the Bronx Terminal project and start on rebuilding the engine .<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>gallery above (click on the picture to open it)<\/strong> shows the progress so far.<\/p>\n<p>On to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=1485\">Next Section<\/a><\/p>\n<p>-T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNJ 1000 Boxcab click on image to open the gallery&#8230;. Earlier in the year I managed to find an old Astro Craft brass boxcab model of CNJ 1000, the engine used at the Bronx Terminal for several decades. Since it was a fairly old model, mid-60&#8217;s I would guess, the power drive on it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cnj-1000-boxcab","category-front-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}