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The Southern and the NW ordered engines with high short hoods so that the engines did't need to be turned. The feeling was that the view really wasn't better in either direction. On a chopped nose engine the view is much better and most railroads turned them so that the short hood was on the leading end. Crash protection was another consideration. But if anything gets that high to the cab your in for a bad day. The NW stopped buying high short hoods when it became to expensive. The Southern kept buying them up until the merger. Some Southern engines have horns on both ends so money must not have been much of an issue. The NdeM of Mexico bought GP-38 with high short hoods to house a steam generator. They are the only ones so equipped. The rest of the order was for short hoods.
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