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- From: billg@bony1.bony.com (Bill Gripp)
- Subject: Re: Why long end of engine forward?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.064435.18356@bony1.bony.com>
- Organization: LA&W RR
- References: <1992Nov14.133319.3394@ncsu.edu> <1e4pt5INN1g4@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 06:44:35 GMT
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- In article <1e4pt5INN1g4@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> elw4@po.CWRU.Edu (Evan L. Werkema) writes:
-
- > N&W and Southern ordered engines with high hoods so that "the crews would
- >not object to running the engines long hood forward," and the long hood was
- >usually "front." Whether this was for crew safety or just so they wouldn't
- >have to turn the engines as often, I don't know. The practice of ordering
- >high short hoods ended with the delivery of the first SD50's to N&W...either
- >EMD and GE wouldn't cooperate anymore, or it was decided that the SD50 and
- >C36-7 were just too darn long to run long hood forward. Southern's GP50's
- >were (I think) the last high hood units bought.
-
- I seem to recall that N&W and/or SRR and/or NS received some low hood
- units which were set up to run long hood forward.
-
-
- > Most NS trains I've seen the last few years have run with the lead engine
- >short hood forward, even with the older high-hood engines. I have seen 6-axle
- >DASH 8's run "backwards" on rare occasion though, which looks REALLY odd.
-
- I saw a pair of NS Dash-8 in Oak Island Yard (ex-LV, Newark, NJ) about 6
- months to a year ago coupled short hoods together. Presumable they ran
- in and out this way.
-
-
- > One other NS question...many old ex-SOU engines have two sets of horns, one
- >set mounted on each hood. Did they feel that running nearly invisible black
- >engines made extra volume on the horns necessary?
-
- Could these be set up with dual controls? If so then the appropriate
- set of horns would be used depending upon which end was leading.
- Although I don't recall if they had dual horns, the EL had some
- U33/36C's and perhaps some SD45's set up with dual control. It was not
- all that uncommon to find these running long hood forward.
-