Ya, as Tom said earlier, I don't know that there's any documentation of a railroad choosing long-hood forward for safety reasons? I suspect one of the railroad / railfan magazines speculated that was a reason years back, and it's just been repeated so often it's accepted as fact. For most railroads, their first diesels were end-cab switchers, run with cab in the rear like a steam switcher. Could be when road switchers came along some railroads just decided to keep running them with the cab towards the rear too, since that's the way they had done it before?
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