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nounsteeple cab (plural steeple cabs)
plural steeple cabs · alternative steeplecab
- rail transportA centrally placed cab on some early electric locomotives.
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.
1962 October, M.J. Wilson, “Three years of dieselisation at Devons Road depot”, in Modern Railways, page 265 - An electric locomotive with such a cab.
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