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Author:	John B. Hungerford
Title:	Cab-in-Front
Subtitle:	The Half-century Story Of An Unconventional Locomotive
Publisher:	Hungerford
Country:	USA
Date:	1959
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Transport
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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WPLives 30th Jul 2021		Cab in Front By John Hungerford The half century story of an unconventional locomotive. Soft Cover Copyright 1974 36 pages The Half-Century Story of an Unconventional Locomotive SOME DAY THE STORY of the golden age of American railroading-the period in the earlier decades of the twentieth century-will be completely chronicled and when it is a portion will certainly contain allusion to an unconventional creature which flourished in the West for close on 50 years. It belonged to a strain as rugged as the mountains responsible for its inception and it never strayed from the boundaries of its western habitat. Neither did it, in all the days of its usefulness, leave the corrals of its owners nor carry the brand markings of another ranch. That was the Cab-Ahead locomotive, conceived by Southern Pacific and born of necessity. Otherwise called the Back-Up, Cab-Forward, Cabin-Front, Cab-Fronter, Cab-First, Stack-in-Back, it was as distinctly Espee as the familiar herald showing the rails vanishing into the sunset. Throughout some 35 years 256 of these monstrous machines came west from the Baldwin works to serve SP diligently and well. No articulated Cab-Aheads ever operated regularly on rails other than Southern Pacific's. No other railroads adopted them, yet they were not freaks and their success as products of the minds of men unafraid to break with the past is one of SP's best chapters. There was something about the Cab-Aheads that struck a popular fancy, both among laymen and railroadmen. Possibly it was that note of nonconformity, a departure from accepted practice in design, that made these locomotives such favorites. They were not always thought of that way; when first introduced their crews were unwilling to ride in a front-end cab. They argued of the danger to engineer and fireman in head-on collisions and crossing accidents, but these objections soon passed.



WPLives 29th Jul 2021		Brief but detailed history of Southern Pacific's cab-ahead locomotives. With condensed roster. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. History of Southern Pacific's front-end cabs. Originally.published in 1959 by Hungerford Press, Reseda, CA. illustrated. Size: 7¾"×9¾".

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