The conventionally-oriented Steam locomotive, with its front-facing boiler, and rearward cab, was suitable for nearly every application in railroading, and was generally the universal preferred standard; in fact, on the eve of dieselization, some roads ordered diesels long-hood forward, as locomotive crews enjoyed the distance protection offered by a steam locomotive’s boiler in a collision. However, […]
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