@Lehigh Valley Railroad posted:While the short hood may only have a spot for sand and maybe a toilet, the longhood has that really big and heavy prime mover to stop anything...
Well, to each his own. Having had to visit quite a number of railroad wrecks, as an estimator out of the EMD Sales Engineering Dept. in the 1970s, I can tell you that I sure didn't like seeing the massive prime mover & main generator pushed into/through the operating cab, when running long hood forward.