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| ID # 1,121 |
This locomotive cab, from an engine on the New Haven line, shows the complicated array of gauges and other fixtures which the engineer must master and handle properly. The earliest locomotives had no cabs, only platforms on which the enginemen stood while they worked. In 1848 Ross Winans designed and built a locomotive named the camel, with one of the earliest cabs, a structure which stood like a primitive roof astride the boiler. He followed this up with over 200 similar engines all known as "camels," for the Baltimore & Ohio. Enclosed wooden cabs appeared around 1859. Modern cabs are built of steel or aluminum plate. Cabs of coalburners have stokers, fireboxes and grate-shakers. The long list of cab equipment includes-among other fixtures-the throttle lever,
brake lever, steam and air gauge, water level controls, whistle cord, bell-ringer, lighting equipment and on passenger engines (except in the Deep South) train-heating equipment.
NEW HAVEN RAILROAD
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