What Is a Cab Car? Train Talk: Ep. 1

Hello everyone! Train Talk is a new video series that I will post to my channel the first Friday of the month. These videos explore a particular topic in depth that relates to trains and railroads. In this episode, we talk about cab cars and how they work. From Multiple Unit cables to NPCU's, you'll see it all. All aboard!
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[LegoWormNoah]

3:51 Honestly, that looks more like a DMU from the Genesis line than a cab car.

[mec]

1:58 damn I miss those locos...
Best locos in the fleet by far

[SystemVideoProductions]

Awesome! Now I can show this to my friends and tell them I’m not crazy.

[BlancaFierro-Duarte]

Wow 8 years ago to now! Dats crazy! Your voice sounds different! Thanks for changing railfanning for the better Mike!

[theromanorder]

This was an apsalotly amazing video, very helpful, normal i need to look for multiple videos to answer my questions, and sometimes the one i find the best leaves me with questions so i keep looking, this is one of the first times i found a first try video and you gave me more information then i needed
Thank you ill take a look on the rest of your videos

[scootosan]

I have wondered about these. Nice informative video look forward to more of them. Thanks Mike

[Geographydude]

I don’t know why but I FREAKING LOVE CAB CARS

[metra]

I love the new train talks videos, can you please make more!

[ruteni-san]

Well done! How about US railroads signal system for next one?

[groggers]

Those non-powered control units are like what we have in the UK on the intercity 225s. One end is a locomotive and the other is a DVT (driving van trailer). You can usually tell which is which by which pantograph is raised, although some classes have a through-train connection.

[snnyburnett]

Oh yes this is great. No one really does videos explaining basics like this.

[bueromuell]

Very much like all your videos- very informative especially due to your narrative. Only got into watching train videos/documentaries recently.
Thanks again.

[JKJTransit]

This makes more sense. I thought the cab cars had traction motors themselves. I learned something new about cab cars. Thank you for this information!

[staticklingon]

Just starting this series. I love it already from the first episode. My 3-year-old loves this channel, by the way. haha

[etherealprodigy]

Why are there so many different styles of Amtrak cars- both 1 level and 2 level?
I love your shots of SD county- especially in Cardiff I always park by the train tracks to surf!

[markfowler]

Back in the UK when I was a kid (50‘s-early 60‘s) we had steam pulled push pull trains with a cab car (driving trailer) on some branch lines.

[HSMiyamoto]

Those clips of Cascade train in San Diego, 1000 miles from its Pacific Northwest home, truly surprised me.

[JaredEaves]

Great video Mike! I never knew about the cabbage cars lol.

[e-g-g-]

Im starting to try to learn about trains and this is great!!

[thetreedemoknight]

3:57 Gotta love how much that cab car's shaking