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[quote user="kgbw49"] Once in a blue moon, Norfolk Southern still dispatches a train "Southern style"...oft times these are reported on sites like Railpictures.net...this particular picture is captioned as an SD70M leading... <img style="display:inline;" src="http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/2/6/1/8261.1224445850.jpg" alt="Image result for norfolk southern long hood forward" width="659" height="438" /> This one was reported as NS 252... <img style="display:inline;" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8gdGITKn6-8/maxresdefault.jpg" alt="Image result for norfolk southern long hood forward" width="659" height="371" /> This one was reported as NS 833... <img style="display:inline;" src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tjrV8TMiyB0/maxresdefault.jpg" alt="Image result for norfolk southern long hood forward" width="659" height="371" /> This one was reported as a BNSF Peavine train from Phoenix where the scheduled leader was bad-ordered and the NS unit that otherwise would have been second in line was "lead-capable" with the long hood and so was dispatched long hood forward... <img style="display:inline;" src="http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/8/8/9/3889.1152190800.jpg" alt="Image result for norfolk southern 9376" width="657" height="506" /> Here is an SD40-2 on NS 305 as recently as March 18, 2016...you can tell by the dust it is kicking up that it is still bringing its A game after all these years and is really moving along... <img style="display:inline;" src="http://www.railpictures.net/images/d2/6/7/7/1677.1458350448.jpg" alt="Image result for norfolk southern long hood forward" width="651" height="458" /> I would surmise that Norfolk Southern still needing locomotives for mine runs, even though coal is down, would have a need to have more units set up to run long hood forward. <div style="clear:both;"> </div> [/quote]   I hadn't seen pictures of NS units running long hood forward... I just love how that looks, especially the SD70M and SD40-2 with their less prominent cowling (I think that's the proper term for that?) Remind me of old steamers, something about the engineers behind the big beast they're controlling is neat to me.
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