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These locomotives are operated by Pacific National in Australia. 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 be either a cabless booster unit controlled from a linked cab unit, or a cab unit that contains its own controls.
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 ...
A Union Pacific DDA40X comfort cab locomotive A Santa Fe FP45 comfort cab locomotive. The basic shape of the comfort cab design first appeared on a hood unit, the EMD DDA40X, in 1969. It was the same design as the F45 and FP45 cowl units being built by EMD at the time. The cab used on the DDA40X was not a true "Safety cab" because it consisted ...
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.
The locomotives were built by a partnership of ALCO and General Electric in Schenectady, New York, between January 1946 and May 1959. Designed by General Electric's Ray Patten (along with their ALCO PA cousins), they were of a cab unit design; both cab-equipped lead FA and cabless booster FB models were built.
A total of 101 cab-equipped lead A units and 156 cabless booster B units were built. The F9 was the fifth model in GM-EMD's highly successful "F" series of cab 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 much better visibility from the ...
The EMD F3 is a 1,500-horsepower (1,100 kW) B-B freight- and passenger-hauling carbody diesel locomotive produced between July 1945 and February 1949 by General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division. Final assembly was at GM-EMD's La Grange, Illinois plant. A total of 1,106 cab-equipped lead A units and 694 cabless booster B units were built.
The Baldwin DR-4-4-1500 was a 1,500-horsepower (1,100 kW) cab unit-type diesel locomotive built for freight service by the Baldwin Locomotive Works between November 1947 and June 1950. It was produced in two different body types, nicknamed the " Babyface " and " Sharknose " styles by railfans , though Baldwin used the same model number for both.