Re: [CBQ] Cab Cars: Aurora Station in the push-pull era

["cbqbill1x" <kybillhusb@gmail.com>]

The introduction of Cab Control Cars for commuter railroad operation represented a significant advance in design, eliminating the need to "turn" the locomotive at the end of each run.

A suburban commuter passenger car equipped with a control cab for the locomotive engineer. The control cab allows the train to be operated from either end of the train, and eliminates the need for an engineer to be physically present in the locomotive during the operation of the train. In operation, the control cab is located on the end of the train, while the locomotive is on the front of the train. When the train reaches the end of its run, the train does not have to be turned and the locomotive remains at what is now the end of the train. The engineer then walks to the front of the train, and operates the train from the control cab car on the return trip.  The use of control cab or cab control cars represented a major advance, allowing greater efficiency, and higher utilization of suburban commuter trains at a time when wages and costs were rising rapidly for the railroads.  Control Cab equipped trains were often called Push-Pull trains, because of the nature of their operation.

Bill Husband

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