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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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| (...) 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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| "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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| Wow, weird. I reread my message, and I hope you didn't think I was challenging you. When you said that they like the high hood design I did not know that you meant that they liked the high hood design for no other reason than they wanted it that (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Masi" <cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu> Newsgroups: lugnet.trains Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 1:53 PM Subject: Re: New train MOCs (...) When (...) that (...) that (...) that (...) nope. and I hope I (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Nope, I didn't think your response was harsh. I took it as you meant it, just general info. (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) In general, yes. But SR and N&W tended to run long hood first (for crash protection) so saw no reason to have a low hood on what to them was the "back end", since low hoods actually cost more, IIRC (the steel fab work for a high nose was less (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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