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Which end was supposed to be the "front"?
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Which end was supposed to be the "front"?
Yeah, the "J" had their SD9s specifically set up to run long-hood forward (for that very reason) when they were new.
I think that ended in the mid '70s when the '38s arrived.
The railroad could order a loco to be long hood or short hood as front as well as left or right hand drive.
Running long hood forward (for collision protection) must have been very difficult !
I think it was based on actual data collected from many thousands of fatal/serious injury collisions between road and rail vehicles, and was not just based on superstition and unfounded fears for crew safety
If this were the case, then what reason would there to be to decrease crew visibility by a ton? I think crew safety was more than just a factor.I honestly don't think 'crew protection' was ever really a factor but an added benefit of operating with the long hood to the front.
N&W, and Southern RR, specifically started running long hood forward due to crews constantly hitting rural road vehicles (such as Billy Bob's speeding moonshine pickup truck that was loaded up with "Shine", that got totally schmizzened down at the local road rail crossing, when he dint' stop or even look both ways) .... crews were being injured by broken glass and metal, so they enacted the long hood running forward rule ... This is a FACT ! They dint' enact it just cauze they thought it looked kinda' schnazzy ... there were thousands of cases of collision factor data, that caused Company policy to enact long hood forward running. I'm sure RR Unions had a big say in enacting the policy !
N&W, and Southern RR, specifically started running long hood forward due to crews constantly hitting rural road vehicles (such as Billy Bob's speeding moonshine pickup truck that was loaded up with "Shine", that got totally schmizzened down at the local road rail crossing, when he dint' stop or even look both ways) .... crews were being injured by broken glass and metal, so they enacted the long hood running forward rule ... This is a FACT ! They dint' enact it just cauze they thought it looked kinda' schnazzy ... there were thousands of cases of collision factor data, that caused Company policy to enact long hood forward running. I'm sure RR Unions had a big say in enacting the policy !