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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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 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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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)
B-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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Articulated locomotive Garratt locomotive Fairlie locomotive Mallet locomotive Cab forward locomotive Compound locomotive Duplex locomotive Electric–steam...
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Push–pull train (section Locomotive at one end)
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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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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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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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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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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Slug (railroad) (redirect from Slug (locomotive))
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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Footplate (redirect from Gangway (locomotive))
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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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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EMD SD70 series (redirect from EMD SD70I locomotive)
"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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the real T 478.4s, Goggles is portrayed as a single cab locomotive rather than a dual cab locomotive. List of ČD Classes Bittner et al. (2008). Bittner...
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A Fairlie locomotive is a type of articulated steam locomotive that has the driving wheels on bogies. The locomotive may be double-ended (a double Fairlie)...
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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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GE 70-ton switcher (category General Electric locomotives)
center-cab locomotives built for the New York Central Railroad in November 1942. These units differ from the later end-cab versions. Locomotives exported...
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EMD FT (category B-B locomotives)
F-unit series of cab unit freight diesels and was the locomotive that convinced many U.S. railroads that the diesel-electric freight locomotive was the future...
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