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Thanks, folks! My suspicion, based on nothing but assumption (so this is a SWAG- scientific wild a__ guess) is that some Southern railroads ran diesels long hood first for added protection to the crews. Truth... or fiction? I've also noticed that the "short" hood on many NS locomotives I've seen is a full platform to roof hood, and that this seems to be a peculiarity of southern locomotives. Was this done for the same reason? I pay attention to the museum signs that say "stay off the equipment" so I have no idea what's actually in the nose end of those things, not having seen them from the inside. I'm guessing- another SWAG- that this is where the sand for the sanders is kept, plus a "crew comfort station" (read: toilet). Given some of the horrors I've read about those same ah, crew comfort stations here and elsewhere, I'm not sure I'd want to discover what effect a 70 MPH impact would have on them... might be an incentive to jump! Erik I
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