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There are various reasons for railrodas choosing either long- or short-hood forward. I know the Erie Lackawanna, downstate, and highly populated areas with numerous grade crossings, sometime in the 60s, early seventies decide they would run their Geeps with the long-hood forward. I believe this was only in a few divisions. There decision to do this was to give the engineer and fireman more protection during grade crossing incidents. However, some railroads just did it because that was the way the were facing at the time. There are probably other reasons behind the RR's choosing direction. Colin
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