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[quote user="cascadenorthernrr"]  Also how big would a doghouse need to be to be used as a diesel control cab? [/quote] As far as I know there is no data for this, because the prototype did not do this (someone please cite a source if they did).  The two examples we have found have both been cab located control stands.  The reason for the cab control stand is that it does not make any sense to have 2 people controlling the train when 1 would do.  The person riding in the doghouse would have to be a qualified engineer.  He would dispace the head brakeman, whose job it was to watch for hotboxes at the head end, etc.  Doghouses usually were not found on passenger locomotives.  Those that had them were locomotives that were displaced by E units, PAs and others. Again as many and myself has said in previous posts:  Its your railroad, do as you please.  But you are posting in the "Prototype information for the modeler" section.   Therefore the forum members here are giving you prototype information.  Your thread has been very informative, as I did not know about the control stands in the two steam engines we have found so far. Personally if I wanted to model a diesel controls in a steam locomotive, I would mount a little styrene box on an angle that pokes down from inside the cab roof and be done with it (see photos from B&O RR museum).  You might be able to get someone to 3-D print the thing (although it might be too small to get resolution in HO scale).
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