steeple cab

English

A steeple cab locomotive in Yakima circa 1970

Noun

steeple cab (plural steeple cabs)

1. (rail transport) A centrally placed cab on some early electric locomotives.
   • 1962 October, M.J. Wilson, “Three years of dieselisation at Devons Road depot”, in Modern Railways, page 265:

     All main line work is carried out by the Type 1s, whose principal design fault is offside "blindness", due to the position of the driving cab behind a long, high nose; a steeple cab would obviously be preferable.

2. An electric locomotive with such a cab.

Alternative forms

• steeplecab

Synonyms

• centercab

Further reading

• steeplecab on Wikipedia.Wikipedia