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Reply to "Visibility of Engineers"

p51 posted:
CSX FAN posted:

Here is a view from the fireman's side in  GG1 4934. I have one from the engineers side but the glass was to cloudy, to see the limited view. You can see is isn't much at all. What you can't see is the high hood that completely blocks vision to the right.  

In a push move side window view only, you may as well be standing in a dark closet especially at night. 0% view. pray your radio is working and keep pushing. 

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I talked with a former PRR engineer at the Strasburg museum once. He said he hated running GG1s for as tight as the cab was and how awful the view was.

Please remember that the entire electrified areas of the PRR all were equipped with cab signal/automatic train control. Yes, the forward visibility of a PRR GG1 was "limited", but having ridder more that one GG1, plus a P5a Modified, back in the 1950s, it really wasn't all that bad. 

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