Comfort cab
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A comfort cab is a design found on most modern North American diesel locomotives, and some export models. The broad nose occupies the entire width of the locomotive, and typically has an access door o
A BNSF GE Dash 9-44CW, a modern comfort cab locomotive
A Union Pacific DDA40X comfort cab locomotive
A Santa Fe FP45 comfort cab locomotive
Hood unit
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A hood unit, in North American railroad terminology, is a body style for diesel and electric locomotives where the body is less than full-width for most of its length and walkways are on the outside.
Comfort cab
…wide cab is somewhat of a misnomer because it is the nose, not the cab, that is widened). 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…
A Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern EMD GP40 running long hood forward
A BNSF EMD GP60B cabless hood unit