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- From: atrw0176@cellar.org (Atrw93)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: Why long end of engine forward?
- Message-ID: <FZNiuB1w164w@cellar.org>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 02:41:14 GMT
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- jbvb@vax.ftp.com (James B. VanBokkelen) writes:
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- > In article <1992Nov16.183626.7277@ee.ryerson.ca> cal@ee.ryerson.ca (Calvin He
- >
- > hess@stat.ncsu.edu (George Hess) writes:
- >
- > >Does anyone know why Norfolk Southern (and their ancestors, N&W and
- > >Southern) runtheir engines long end forward?
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > I think it was actually because the crew is better-protected when the long
- > hood is between them and a gravel truck they're about to crunch.
- >
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- Yes, this is essenially correct. In the last days of the Lehigh Valley,
- vandalism and careless drivers - particularly heavy trucks and dangerous
- commodities - got so bad that with the typical short hood forward,
- many engine crews too to operating from the second unit in the consist.
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