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- From: btiffany@pbs.org
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: Why long end of engine forward?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.191954.19047@pbs.org>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 00:19:54 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.133319.3394@ncsu.edu> <1e4pt5INN1g4@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Nov17.064435.18356@bony1.bony.com>
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- In article <1992Nov17.064435.18356@bony1.bony.com>, billg@bony1.bony.com (Bill Gripp) writes:
- >>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.
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- The Satellites (C39-8's) initially ran long hood forward, despite low noses,
- as did the first low-nosed SD50's. I've got pictures of 'em.
-
- >> 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.
-
- The new SR engines had horns at both ends, too. They were bidirectional,
- alhough the railroad preferred to have the long hood in front.
-
- -- Bruce Tiffany
-