David Johnston posted:It is interesting to see the loco with the horn still hood mounted, bell on the hood, and class lights. Also there are no steps on the front right and rear left corners. How was someone going to get on those walkways? Not much is done on those corners of the loco, but that is where the fuel fill is and the engineers window would need to be washers occasionally. Without corner steps it would not have made a very good switcher. With all the equipment on the front hood, it appears to be set up as a road engine.
GN 50 was the 3rd GE 44 Tonner built. It is a Phase 1a, the ladder to get on the walkway is over the middle of the rear truck. Roughly 2 dozen phase 1a's were built. Phase 1c has the conventional ladders at each corner.
Steve
