N/S Marker Lights

The MTH Norfolk Southern SD-50 is set up for LONG hood forward.

Glad you said that Keith LMAO I was gonna tell em to turn the shell around
Dang that's funny.

David

A....duh!  Thanks C&O!  It never occured to me that could be the case.  I guess the reason for my confusion was, that in the MTH catalog, it shows them short hood first.  However, this particular cab number(6523), is not listed or pictured.  Thanks for setting me straight....long hood forward, of course!

 

Steve

You might also look for the little letter "F" on the under frame, which denotes THAT end as the "Front".

Another mystery solved.
And all this time I've been wondering what word in Chinese began with an F
Happy Easter everyone.

David

Many foamers think that little letter "F" indicates where you should take the "foto" from!

Steve, which way is the crew facing?

David

Steve, did it look something like this?

I went through the exact same thing.  All of the pictures I found on NS engines showed them running short hood first.  Then someone posted a picture of that exact engine and it was long hood first.

I figured you guys were going to break my cookies a bit!  Oh well, I can take it.  I work in the maintenance department of a large plant with some pros in the cookie busting field. The good news is that I have it facing the right way and it's looking good and running well.  In my defense, like JHFVA, most of the pictures I found of N/S SD-50's were cab forward, which leads me to another question.  Other then crash safety, are there any other reasons why they would chose to run this way?  Thanks again for the help!

 

Steve

  Even though they had the "F" on the long hood end, they weren't always operated that way. 

Here's one of 6507 running short hood forward. 

According to my Wife who works for NS, they don't usually run them like that any more. She says most engineers won't operate them long hood forward because either they can't see well enough or they just want something to complain about!

A major error with the model of the NS SD50 is that MTH used Conrail style marker lights on a unit which was not an ex-Conrail loco.

 

Stuart

Norfolk & Western and Southern Ry. Ran their engines long hood forward first long after other railroads changed to low short hoods running first. The illustration shows the reason. Locomotives set up for long hoods first usually have high short hoods. N&W and later NS acquired many engines from mergers (i.e. Wabash) setup for short hood first operation.

 

You can bet the crew was glade to be at the far end of this wreck

They might have avoided the accident if they could have seen better.

Yeah, then they could've swerved out of the way in time!

 

Rusty