High short hoods - "restricted" the crew's view? I imagine an engineer or fireman being
thrown forward in time from, say, 1938, would find the "view restriction" issue of a
tiny little sheet metal enclosure to be vastly amusing.
How many "short hoods" would it take to equal the length of even a 4-6-2's boiler, not to mention that of a 4-6-6-4? View? What view?