QUOTE: Originally posted by fuzzybroken An interesting story: When Southern Railway purchased the original 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!!!
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