a cab forward question

If you google "Inside cab of cab forward locomotive" and do images, you will get a number of hits that if you visit will have images like this.  Most of the traditional instruments were on the back.

If you google "Inside cab of cab forward locomotive" and do images, you will get a number of hits that if you visit will have images like this.  Most of the traditional instruments were on the back.

 

 

That top photo is NOT from a cab forward! It is clearly from a coal burning loco. And it appears that "most of the traditional instruments" were not on the back, but placed where the crew can read them while facing forward.

As a matter of fact, "If you google "Inside cab of cab forward locomotive" and do images," the majority of the photos are not from a cab forward.

Just Google SP 4294 and you'll find some images.

Forrest,

The necessary gauges, etc. for the Engineer and the Fireman are located in a "center console" so to speak. The Fireman's controls and gauges were on his right, as he faced forward, conversely the Engineer's air brake controls and gauges were on his left as he faced forward, while the throttle was "hung from the ceiling".

There should be plenty of cab interior photos of the 4294, the only existing cab forward, in the California State Railroad Museum. 

I was in 4294's cab about three weeks ago.  The thing I noted, that made the cab feel unusual, was that the walkway across the cab between the cab doors is just inside the windshield and in front of the crew. The crew's seats are back against the boiler.  This arrangement does keep the crew away from the windows in case they hit something.  The other thing that came to mind was with all the protruding controls and supports, that cab looks like an unpleasant place to be in an collision or derailment.

 I'm not allowed to link to it but if you search on "sp 4294 pictures" you will find one at www.rrpicturearchives.net.

thanks, all.