226:). This is a holdover from the steam era of railroads where almost all locomotives were built with the cab placed at the rear of the locomotive. It is a common misconception that locomotives were run LHF to provide greater protection, although it may have been a secondary benefit. Southern Railway and Norfolk and Western Railway operated their locomotives bidirectionally to make coal shifting more efficient. By putting the engineer on the right side with the Long Hood Forward, the engineer could see signals down the long hood and around the
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The term 'long hood forward' is not used in
Britain, as the hood would be described as a "bonnet" or "engine compartment". Most British diesel locomotives have a cab at each end, so the term does not apply. Where a single-cab design was used, it was designed to be operated long hood forward, but, in
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The
Norfolk and Western Railway (NW) operated as Southern Railway did, with the long hood toward the front; the only difference between NW locomotives and Southern locomotives was the position of the bell. NW had the bell on the short hood while Southern had the bell on the long hood.
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Normally, the long hood is the rear of the locomotive. For early hood unit models, this was not the case; railroads preferred to run with the long hood at the front and the cab at the rear (referred to as operating
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formerly operated locomotives long hood forward for both passenger & freight operations. It now operates most trains short hood forward for safety reasons, but at least one train still runs long hood forward.
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with desktop style controls, which bar the ability to operate the unit long hood forward because the desktop style prevents the engineer from turning in his or her chair to face the other end of the locomotive.
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is, as the name implies, the longer of the two hoods (narrower sections of the locomotive body in front and behind of the cab) on a locomotive, particularly
American-type freight locomotives.
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for operations in both directions. Later, preferences changed to having the short hood at the front and the long hood at the rear for better visibility and with the advent of Wide, or
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is operating long hood forward on their locomotives on passenger operations depending on what direction the locomotive is facing.
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Long hood forward is a fading practice. Most modern locomotives produced in the USA feature wide-nose
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are the first units ordered with the low, short hood, and pointed LHF)
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The railroads that held out the longest for long-hood leading were the
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