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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 22:43:16 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 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)
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> 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.
Never mind... the 420's a high nose, I got confused with the low nose generic.
Both are great models though!
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| (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.trains)
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