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- From: cal@ee.ryerson.ca (Calvin Henry-Cotnam)
- Subject: Re: Why long end of engine forward?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.183626.7277@ee.ryerson.ca>
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- Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto
- References: <1992Nov14.133319.3394@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:36:26 GMT
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- hess@stat.ncsu.edu (George Hess) writes:
- >
- >Does anyone know why Norfolk Southern (and their
- >ancestors, Norfolk & Western and Southern) run
- >their engines long end forward?
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- I always speculated that the powers that be had such a strong tie
- to steam power that they chose to operate diesel locomotives in a
- way resembling steam locomotives, with the cab at the rear end.
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- :-)
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- Calvin Henry-Cotnam, CATE | "...My brain IBM"
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