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Thanks for all the answers people [:)] <br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by fuzzybroken</i> <br /><br />An interesting story: When Southern Railway purchased the <i>original</i> Norfolk Southern, they had all their locomotives with low short hoods and ran short-hood-forward. Of course, this wasn't the way that Southern did things, so they were promptly sent to the shop, where the short hoods were rebuilt to high short hoods, and the control stands were turned so that the engines would run the "right way". Gotta love them Southerners!!! <br />[/quote] <br />Hehe I like that. It sounds like the Southern had a similar attitude to the Great Western here in the UK. They did things "their" way even after nationalisation and nobody from central BR would get in their way. [:p] <br /> <br />I was aware that GN ran long hood forward but I thought they were the exception rather than the rule. Our Class 20's were intended originally for long hood forward operation, but they ended up usually working nose to nose in pairs because of the visibility issue. <br />[img]http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/gb/diesel/20/20_0/20nott.jpg[/img]
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