F-unit Dual Controls?

I never knew EMD, nor GMDL, offered or made dual control stands for ANY "F", "E", or "BL2" units, for domestic, i.e. north american continent delivery. Probably more hollywood studio mock-up garbage.

Maybe the dual stands are used to hide the real engineering you're not supposed to see.

Butch 

When you think about it, having duel control stands in a cab unit would make no sense, like in a hood unit, or even a switcher. they are arranged so either end could be 'front'. All you would look at is the back wall on the fireman's side, or the engineroom door!

Artistic license.

Rusty

I remember when Touchstone was making the movie Tuff Guys, their "prop department" made a full size cab mock-up of 4449, withe virtually ever detail. They then want a "Fireman" in the mock-up to be shoveling coal. Naturally we all had to talk them out of THAT, which took a bit of time. The Director simply couldn't understand why we had no coal! When he finally looked at the inside of the real cab, he understood how the oil burner sort of worked.

Did you ever actually see both in the movie at the same time? My guess would be it's just a product of the image being horizontally flipped.

I don't believe the images were flipped.  If I remember correctly, the dead-man's pedal was always to the right of the stand.  Remember the shots during the line "Keep your foot on the pedal", and the shot of the tool box on the pedal.  It could have been a mock stand so the shots of the pedal were easier to get.

Or cloulds of steam coming from the bottoms of Amfleet cars

So Jack, do you need some really good coal for the '49 when she's ready to get back on the road?

Let Doyle know I have a good source...