steeple cab
noun1
Rail transport, Railways, Transport A 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:
2
An electric locomotive with such a cab.
- Synonyms
- centercab