sweet Get a pic of the rear & sides too

yayz indiana ^^

Ooh, nice shot! I liked how you took the shot to the front view of the locomotive and the name of the station. Really nice.

I have a juxtaposition like this, somewhere in my collection of slides...nice lighting here, also!

Nice picture of a high nose locomotive... I still don't get why they kept the high nose even after having put the long nose behind the cab instead of in front of it like those old streamers?

I think it's mostly tradition- in the early diesel days, crews that ran steamers were used to having a boiler in their vision, so a diesel loco hood is similar to that. But the high short hoods also held equipment like boilers (for heating passenger cars before they switched over to electric heat provided by an HEP generator in the locomotive). Until fairly recently, Norfolk Southern for instance, did not order any wide-cab diesels, and made special orders for engines with standard cabs instead. Eventually EMD and GE basically told them "no more exceptions!", and NS has now ordered lots of wide-cab units. So tradition is important in locomotive development, even now.

That's right, tradition is one thing though practicality is another... When I started driving, I had to drive one of those GE u23B with long hood forward but it had a high short hood as well and even driving it reversed, it wasn't practical at as the conductor had to call most signals! Though, they do have a touch of charm due to their traditional look!

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