Standard EMD control stand (Photo of the day)

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Maybe if quantity built of the one illustrated, or the sum of the two variants of it, vs. other EMD control stands, but in addition to the GE variations installed from the U30,s on, qualify it,  it's the standard; otherwise the caption is wrong.

Bona fides: SP engine service early 1960 thru 2002. Cabs were my "office"

That stand was introduced about the time the 645 engine was, no earlier. If there were any on GP7's or 9's they were not OE(M). That "stand" I believe was an ARR-Standard, an attempt to have engrs. reach to the same location on all engines to find the controls...throttle, transition (DB controller combo) lever, reverser, headlight switches, independent and train air brake handles...at night, like the dark side of life.

Carried-over, the desk's control arrangements were similar: GE or EMD. 'cept for the unfortunate EMD placement of the Emergency Engine Shut Down buttons at knee level under the desk top....Fatal.

GE had a combo control which could be placed to control power or dynamic braking.....move it near an inch to the side and advance it.....more Dynamic....I need it..bad...(Wrong inch, in power not DB).  Advance the lever for more DB....Fatal....early U33C's.

Whether the scar on the wall of Tunnel Number.....is still visible....Cuesta grade....SLO....monumentalizes---a gravestone for the three, yes, giving a clerk a ride, in  the, light engine, returning helper, still the control stand standardization makes sense

Sense? Sensual--- Light up the 'stand  and diminish night vision....no movie producer made a submarine wartime  tale; if he had without the red light.in the 'conning tower,' was the show in Technicolor.....ancient?