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Re: Alco c420 2010 Diesel Locomotive and a Generic
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 6 Jan 2003 22:38:48 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Harvey Henkelman writes:
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> Great choice of colors, and an ALCO is to drool over. They belch smoke and
> growl like a beast! Don't know if it makes any difference to you, but the
> long hood end is the front on these units (makes for a more dramatic
> appearance leading a train IMHO)
> -Harvey
Do you have a source for that assertion?
It's been my observation with low noses that they tend to operate short hood
first when on lead. It would be a rare road that operated a low nose long
hood first as general practice, unless they got it used and were mostly a
high nose road and operated that way as a general practice. (such as Norfolk
& Western, for example)
Note of course, that there's always a prototype for anything but you're
making a blanket assertion. I'd buy it for the high nose C420s but not the
low noses. however if you have a cite I'm keen to learn that C420s were
unusual in this regard.
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| (...) <snip> Great choice of colors, and an ALCO is to drool over. They belch smoke and growl like a beast! Don't know if it makes any difference to you, but the long hood end is the front on these units (makes for a more dramatic appearance leading (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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