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It wasn't a problem with steam; snorting, belching, blowing steam locos were hard to miss. But diesels are a different animal. Take a look at action photos of working diesels up to about 1960; the headlights are out in almost all cases on almost all RR's. A big exception was passenger trains...they had mars lights or Gyra-lights on all the time for safety sake. A working diesel can sneak up on you with almost no warning. At 40 or 60 mph a diesel freight can swing around a curve out of "no where" at a road crossing. Starting about 1958 the railroads started using the bright headlight during the day for all road operations. Passenger jobs doing 70/90mph had started that sooner. The high visibility paint job is also part of it. And yes, the CSXT "Stealth" scheme was just that, and quickly modified.
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