10-09-2009, 08:57 AM
Puddlejumper Wrote:RS-3s only had a high short hood (hammerhead) if they had Dynamic Brakes and Steam Generator. The SG fit in the low short hood if no DB were present.Good point. I'd wondered why the hammerheads existed, since I remember seeing normal RS-3s with steam generator exhausts on the short hood.
I seem to remember that even some RSD-5s had SGs - for passenger trains on lightly laid branches?
Fan of late and early Conrail... also 40s-50s PRR, 70s ATSF, BN and SP, 70s-80s eastern CN, pre-merger-era UP, heavy electric operations in general, dieselized narrow gauge, era 3/4 DB and DR, EFVM and Brazilian railroads in general... too many to list!