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Subject: 
Re: New train MOCs
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.trains
Date: 
Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:36:36 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi writes:
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.

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 complex than the cab, windows, etc that a low nose entailed)

++Lar



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  Re: New train MOCs
 
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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