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...
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tractor unit, also known as a truck unit, lorry unit, power unit, prime mover, ten-wheeler, semi-tractor, semi-truck, semi-lorry, tractor cab, truck cab, lorry...
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A 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...
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outside. In contrast, a cab unit has a full-width carbody for the length of the locomotive and walkways inside. A hood unit has sufficient visibility...
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with or without cabs; units with a cab are called A units or lead units, while cabless units are called B units or booster units. B units did contain hostler...
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unit or cowl unit locomotive, or forming one of the structural elements of a cab unit locomotive. On self-propelled rail vehicles, the cab may be at one...
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collectively as the C-Line. A combined total of 165 units (123 cab-equipped lead A units and 42 cabless booster B units) were produced by F-M and the CLC between...
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Rolling chassis A cowl unit is a diesel locomotive with full-width, enclosing bodywork, similar in appearance to the cab unit-style of earlier locomotives...
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ALCO DL-109 (section A units (cabs))
Locomotive). They were of a cab unit design, and both cab-equipped lead A units DL-103b, DL-105, DL-107, DL-109 and cabless booster B units DL-108, DL-110 models...
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An A-unit, in railroad terminology, is a diesel locomotive (or more rarely an electric locomotive) equipped with a driving cab and a control system to...
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EMD FT (section Surviving units)
United States. It was the first model in EMD's very successful F-unit series of cab unit freight diesels and was the locomotive that convinced many U.S...
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Control car (redirect from Cab car)
MARC had a former F7 unit, #7100, also converted into an APCU, or All-Purpose Control Unit, which occasionally substituted for a cab car. It was rebuilt...
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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...
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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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several cab-unit diesel-electric locomotives manufactured by GM-EMD and its licensees from 1939 to 1970. The term originated with EMD F-units, as well...
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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...
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EMD F7 (section Surviving units)
successful line of F-unit locomotives, and by far the best-selling cab unit of all time. In fact, more F7s were built than all other F-units combined. The F7...
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their ALCO PA cousins), they were of a cab unit design; both cab-equipped lead (A unit) FA and cabless booster (B unit) FB models were built. A dual passenger-freight...
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cab-equipped lead A units and 694 cabless booster B units were built. The F3 was the third model in GM-EMD's highly successful F-unit series of cab unit...
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predecessor, the FP7, were offshoots of GM-EMD's highly successful F-unit series of cab unit diesel locomotives. EMD built 86 FP9 locomotives. The two largest...
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multiple units, controllers in cabs at both ends directly controlling the traction current to motors on both cars. The multiple unit traction control system...
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the 1930s. Most of these were short production runs (one, two, or four units) that were used by a single railroad. These consisted of Winton prime movers...
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The BLH RF-16 is a 1,625-horsepower (1,212 kW) cab unit-type diesel locomotive built for freight service by the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation between...
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excursion, preferably with an ML-4000 cab unit. However, the cab units were no longer operational, so hood unit number 9120 along with a pair of EMD FP7s...
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Kingdom C Unit, a fictional object class from the 2005 videogame Metal Saga Carbody unit, a locomotive engine, which may contain a control cab (cab unit, A-unit)...
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was equipped with a medium height cab and AAR Type B trucks. Chehalis Western Railroad bought a single high cab unit with Hi-Ad trucks. Columbia and Cowlitz...
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159th Combat Aviation Brigade (redirect from 159th cab)
aviation brigades, and currently the 101st CAB is the only CAB supporting the unit at Fort Campbell. The 159th CAB was inactivated on 15 May 2015. The lineage...
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Cab-over, also known as cab over engine (COE), cab forward or flat face (U.S.), flat nose (Canada), or forward control (UK), is a body style of truck,...
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List of Fairbanks-Morse locomotives (section Cab units)
arrangement Prime mover Power output Image FM Erie-built 1945–1949 82 A units 29 B units A1A-A1A FM 38D-10 opposed-piston 2,000 hp (1.49 MW) FM OP800 1939 6...
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their ALCO FA cousins), they were of a cab unit design; both cab-equipped lead A unit PA and cabless booster B unit PB models were built. While externally...
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