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    The cab, crew compartment or driver's compartment of a locomotive, or a self-propelled rail vehicle, is the part housing the train driver, fireman or...
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    The term cab forward locomotive refers to various rail and road vehicle designs that place the driver's compartment substantially farther towards the front...
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    A camelback locomotive (also known as a Mother Hubbard or a center-cab locomotive) is a type of steam locomotive with the driving cab placed in the middle...
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    In North American railroad terminology, a cab unit is a railroad locomotive with its own cab and controls. "Carbody unit" is a related term, which may...
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    A comfort cab is a design found on most modern North American diesel locomotives, and some export models. The broad nose occupies the entire width of the...
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  • Look up CAB or cab in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cab or CAB may refer to: Cab (locomotive), the driving compartment of a locomotive Cab car Cabin...
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    A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the power source is a diesel engine. Several types of diesel locomotives have been developed...
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    B–unit (redirect from Cabless locomotive)
    unit, in railroad terminology, is a locomotive unit (generally a diesel locomotive) which does not have a control cab or crew compartment, and must therefore...
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  • a vehicle equipped with a control cab at the other end of the train. This second vehicle may be another locomotive, or an unpowered control car. In the...
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    Articulated locomotive Garratt locomotive Fairlie locomotive Mallet locomotive Cab forward locomotive Compound locomotive Duplex locomotive Electric-steam...
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    Control car (redirect from Cab car)
    cars in 1991. The railroad has since switched to classic cab cars with a DE30AC/DM30AC locomotive on some trains. Longer trains require two engines, one...
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    locomotive, which would be a Dual-Cab WDG-4D, rolled out to serve Odisha Power Generation Corporation (OPGC), in March 2017. Three WDG-4D locomotives...
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  • Thumbnail for Indian locomotive class WDP-4
    The locomotive is the most distinctively identifiable of the three thanks to the addition of a second cab at the long hood end of the locomotive. Due...
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  • FM Consolidation Line (category B-A1A locomotives)
    Additionally, two of the 5 × 6s were placed in an experimental center cab switcher locomotive under development by the Reading Railroad (road #87, built in 1939...
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    "North American Safety Cab"), allowing crew members to ride more comfortably inside of the locomotive than the older standard cab designs. There are two...
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    railroading, a slug is a version of a diesel-electric locomotive which lacks a prime mover, and often a cab. It derives the electrical power needed to operate...
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    locomotive is operated by a person not physically at the controls within the locomotive cab. They have been in use for many years in the railroad industry, including...
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  • structure on which a locomotive driver and fireman stand in the cab to operate a British or continental European steam locomotive. It comprises a large...
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    A tank locomotive is a steam locomotive which carries its water in one or more on-board water tanks, instead of a more traditional tender. Most tank engines...
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    EMD GP30 (category Electro-Motive Division locomotives)
    easily recognizable due to its high profile and stepped cab roof, unique among American locomotives. A number are still in service today in original or rebuilt...
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    Cab signaling is a railway safety system that communicates track status and condition information to the cab, crew compartment or driver's compartment...
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    supporting the superstructure elements such as a cab, boiler or bodywork. The vast majority of locomotives have had a frame structure of some kind. The frame...
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    or oil.: 80  Cab (US+ and UK+) Footplate (UK+) Compartment where the engineer (US+) / driver (UK+) and fireman control the locomotive and tend the steam...
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    frame, body, and (in most cases) perform final assembly. In 1895 a box-cab locomotive 32 feet (9.8 m) long with two four-wheel trucks and weighing 46 short...
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    Bangladesh Railway Class 2700 (category Diesel locomotives of Bangladesh)
    2700 diesel electric locomotive is currently (as of 2023) in service on the meter gauge of Bangladesh Railway. This dual cab locomotive series has been in...
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  • Control cab may refer to: Cab (locomotive) Control car This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Control cab. If an internal link...
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  • Thumbnail for Baldwin Locomotive Works
    (1923) box cab electric locomotives for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Baldwin also delivered the EP-3 box cab electric locomotives to the Milwaukee...
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  • Thumbnail for Indian locomotive class WAP-5
    Indian locomotive class WAP-5 is a class of electric locomotives used by Indian Railways. The first ten locomotives were imported from ABB in Switzerland...
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    EMD F9 (category B-B locomotives)
    unit diesel locomotives. By the time cab units such as the F9 were built, railroads were turning to the road switcher-style of locomotive, as they had...
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    Steeplecab (redirect from Steeple cab)
    central control cab with a view in both directions, but there is only vision to one side of the locomotive from each side of the cab, as the hoods are...
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