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Re: exterior ducting on SD40-2's?
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 1 Sep 2000 02:00:13 GMT
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CMASI@stopspamCMASI.CHEM.TULANE.EDU
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Jeff Christner wrote:
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> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 20:34:58 GMT, Christopher Masi
> <cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu> wrote:
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> > Jeff,
> >
> > Just trying to get this straight in my head. With the short hood
> > forward, the engineer's side is the left side, and the fireman's side is
> > the right side. With the long hood forward, the sides are reversed;
> > kinda like driving your car backwards. The pictures of the Conrail
> > GP38-2 and SD40-2's that I have seen have a raised platform on the left
> > side (left side if standing in the cab and looking out over the short
> > hood) where the bulge for the blower is.
> > I have a strange feeling that I have my engineer and fireman sides reversed.
> >
> > Chris
> > --
> > PGP public key available upon request.
>
> On a Conrail unit running short hood foward, the engineer is on the
> right hand side, the fireman is on the left.
>
> NS units being part of the N&W and Southern, famous for long hood
> foward operation, if you were running long hood foward, the engineer
> would be on the right side.
>
> Conrail GP38-2's and NS GP-38-2 are very different. NS units have a
> high short hood while Conrail units have low short hoods, and the
> engineer's control stand is on opposite sides. The raised platform is
> indeed on the left side if both were facing short hood foward, but
> only on NS units does the engineer sit on that side.
>
> On your LEGO Conrail SD40-2, running short hood foward, the engineer
> should be on the right hand side. If you were going to put a minifig
> in there and were short of space, many of our engineers in the yard
> sit facing the control stand, so you could place an engineer in there
> facing toward the center of the cab as opposed to facing directly
> foward.
>
> Jeff Christner
>
> Visit Sixby Fire Tech at - http://members.aol.com/regult/
>
> Help support my LEGO habit. Ship by rail.
> Visit http://www.nscorp.com/ to find out how.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for clearing that up. I'll move my
minifig to the correct side right away!
Chris
--
PGP public key available upon request.
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| (...) On a Conrail unit running short hood foward, the engineer is on the right hand side, the fireman is on the left. NS units being part of the N&W and Southern, famous for long hood foward operation, if you were running long hood foward, the (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.trains)
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