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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by zardoz</i> <br /><br />WDGF- <br />Welcome to the forums. Feel free to ask all you want. Lots of folks here willing to help if we can. <br /> <br />As you surmised, the high hoods were used to store equipment of various kinds. On units used for passenger service, the steam boiler was in the high nose; on freight locomotives the high nose housed the toilet. And usually switch brooms, fusees, spare hoses, wrenches, etc. <br /> <br />The is little in the way of protection from a high short-nose. It is just sheet metal bolted to the frame. <br /> <br />And you are correct, the visibility was awful. <br /> <br /> <br />[/quote] Actually, the toilet was in the short hood of the passenger units, too. There wasn't much room in a short nose with a steam boiler unit and a toilet...and it was VERY unpleasant when the boiler was running!
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