Steeplecab

Steeplecab is railroad terminology for a style or design of electric locomotive; the term is rarely if ever used for other forms of power.

[3] This was only the second electric locomotive built by GE and it is preserved as a static display in the Connecticut Trolley Museum.

The locomotives remained with the successor company of PO, the SNCF, even the Gare d'Orsay closed for long-distance services in 1939.

This line was later electrified with 3000 V and the locomotive was sold to the nearby Cumana railway, where it remained in service till 1963.

[8] In 1902, the British North Eastern Railway placed an order for two steeplecab locomotives of virtually identical design, the ES1 (although they had a dual collection system, using both 3rd rail and pantograph) .

These were for the Tyneside Electrics system in North East England, where their job was to haul very heavy mineral trains relatively short distances but over a route that included gradients as steep as 1 in 27.

AC locomotives thus used the boxcab or centercab layout, where their high bodywork provided space for the additional transformer, rectifiers and control equipment.

In North America, the market was dominated by General Electric and the consortium of Baldwin (BLW) and Westinghouse.

The first two members of the Victorian Railways E class electric locomotives, introduced in 1923, were of a steeplecab design.

Due to severe vibrations as a result of their most of their weight being unsprung, they were withdrawn in 1903 and replaced by multiple-unit trains.

In the US, several examples of steeplecab electric locomotives can be found preserved at various railway museums.

Other, similar, designs with cab position towards the center and hoods, some including very large locomotives: