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"Cab" is a song written and recorded by the American rock band, Train. It was released in November 2005 as the lead single from the band's fourth studio album, For Me, It's You, and was produced by Brendan O'Brien. It peaked higher on the charts than the two other radio singles from the album, "Give Myself to You" and "Am I Reaching You Now".
Cab of a Bavarian EP 2 electric locomotive in the Nuremberg Transport Museum, Nuremberg Driver's cab of a Japanese JR Freight Class EF210 electric locomotive Cab of a British Rail Class 170 diesel multiple unit train. The cab, crew compartment or driver's compartment of a locomotive, or a self-propelled rail vehicle, is the part housing the ...
The train was traveling with its cab car in the front, and the train jackknifed. [4] Eleven people were killed in the accident, and about 180 were injured. Ten years later, in early 2015, another collision occurred in Oxnard, California, involving one of Metrolink's improved "Rotem" cab cars at the front of the train hitting a truck at a ...
Walkway around the locomotive, from the cab front, to facilitate inspection and maintenance. [5] [6]: 437 [3]: 67 Frame The strong, rigid structure that carries the boiler, cab and engine unit; supported on driving wheels (43) and leading and trailing trucks (14, 46). [3]: 36 The axles run in slots in the frames.
In the cab, the driver has a consolidated display which displays the train's ACSES target speed along with the cab signal speed and other useful operating information. Messages conveyed to and from locomotive and ground-based systems are made up of Advanced Train Control System (ATCS) encoded message frames.
The first such systems were installed on an experimental basis in the 1910s in the United Kingdom, in the 1920s in the United States, and in the Netherlands in the 1940s. . Modern high-speed rail systems such as those in Japan, France, and Germany were all designed from the start to use in-cab signalling due to the impracticality of sighting wayside signals at the new higher train spee
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, astride the boiler. Camelbacks were fitted with wide fireboxes which would have severely restricted driver visibility from the normal cab location at the rear.
A locomotive without cab signals that does not receive a C light at an interlocking may proceed past the signal not exceeding Restricted Speed, or with a Form D or other Track Warrant authorization. Cab car (US) A passenger coach which has a full set of train controls at one end, allowing for the use of push-pull train operation [58] Cab unit (US)