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The earliest locomotives, such as Stephenson's Rocket, had no cab; the locomotive controls and a footplate for the crew were simply left open to the elements. However, to protect locomotive crews against adverse weather conditions, locomotives gradually came to be equipped with a roof and protective walls, and the expression "cab" refers to the cabin created by such an arrangement.
The broad nose occupies the entire width of the locomotive, and typically has an access door on the front of the nose. [1] The design may also be called a Canadian comfort cab, a North American safety cab, wide-nose, [2] [better source needed] or a wide cab (although the term wide cab is somewhat of a misnomer because it is the nose, not the ...
Cab units were not generally used in Great Britain. The traditional makers continued to use heavyweight frames and cowl units instead. The LMS twins 10000 and 10001 used the design and later locomotive types such as the British Rail Class 37, and British Rail Class 40 utilised cab units but the term "cab unit" is not used in Britain. The Class ...
In 2017, NCDOT started a Cab Control Unit (CCU) program using ex-GO F59PHs. [9] These are used on the Piedmont. In 2023, Amtrak began testing a former HHP-8 locomotive as a cab car with the aim of supplementing or replacing the existing ex-Metroliner cab cars until the Airo fleet arrives. [10] As of July 2024, eight total conversions are planned.
A Norfolk Southern EMD SD60E locomotive in Ayer, Massachusetts. The SD60E is a custom rebuild of standard cab SD60 for Norfolk Southern created at the Juniata Shops with the prototype being delivered in 2010 and the majority of the production taking place between 2013 and 2017. The SD60E utilizes a new NS-designed wide nose cab with increased ...
Southern Pacific 4294 is a class "AC-12" 4-8-8-2 cab-forward–type steam locomotive that was owned and operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP). It was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in March 1944 and was used hauling SP's trains over the Sierra Nevada, often working on Donner Pass in California.
In Germany, Borsig in Berlin built a one-off streamlined cab-forward DRG Class 05 (serial number 05 003) 4-6-4 in 1937, with further development stopped by World War II. . Fueled by pulverized coal and with the firebox at the forward end, this loco was built with huge driving wheels, 2,300 mm (91 in) in diam
A 2-unit boxcab electric locomotive of the Milwaukee Road Preserved Alco boxcab at the North Alabama Railroad Museum Preserved Victorian Railways (Australia) E class boxcab loco. 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.