Welcome to the new members.? This list has been sadly dormant for a while.
FWIW, the Virginian and some other roads did operate the H24-66's long hood forward.? My guess is that this was a carryover from the engineers who were used to having that much protection in front of them, even with the trade off in visibility.
And, I know I sound like an old old man: Trainmaster as one word is a job on the railroad; Train Master, two words, is FM's name for the H24-66.? Junior and Baby Train Master are unofficial terms for both the H16-66 and H16-44(railfan creations mostly, just like Phases of the other diesel builders)and varied from railroad to railroad and fan group to fan group.? Yeah; there may be five of us who care about this.? The newest issue of the NMRA Magazine has a picture of a lovely H16-44 and they call it a Baby Trainmaster.? Sigh.
Frank Bongiovanni
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