SD40-2's

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John Hecker wrote:


>     In Russ Goodwin's e-mail's second paragraph he says that the 

> Highhood have the short hood as the front and the low hoods have the 

> long hood as front.  Any ideas as to why the high hoods weren't ordered 

> as long hood forward?


The high hood N&W SD40-2's *were* setup with dual control stands and the 
long hood designated as the front.  The only N&W SD40-2's setup for 
short hood forward operation were the units in the last order, Nos. 
6189-6207, which were also the only N&W SD40-2's setup with single 
control.  All of the other low short hood SD40-2's were equipped with a 
bi-directional control stand with the long hood designated as the front.


Chris Toth
NSDash9.com