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| "Christopher Masi" <cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu> wrote in message news:397D1BA5.385EED...ane.edu... (...) was (...) wrong (...) Southern Railway (among a few others in North America) prefered to run their diesels "long hood forward" for safety, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) it (...) Hi John, I'm fine, although yesterday was the last day of my summer hollidays... Since I do own much more 12V stuff than 9V (especially track), I will let this engine be a 12V version. But I really think about painting a 9V motor in (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) How about 8 thick-n-wide... :) It does sound a bit funny in German tho' Interpret well, Andreas Stabno (URL) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) My understanding of it is that if the engine has both Dynamic Brakes and a Steam heater, that problems with space resulted, so you ended up with a high nose. I also think that this is less true in the more modern engines, which usually have (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| I do not know about the EMD GP38 or the SD40-2, but usually the high nose was for generating steam for passneger trains. I am sure if I have this info wrong I'll be corrected, but I think I am right. Chris (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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