Norfolk Southern Routes An Locomotives To Add An Csx C40-8

We need the Norfolk Southern division routes an Locomotives an the short cab CSX C40-8

 

Please give us Norfolk Southern an the CSX C40-8 an Southern Pacific 4449 Daylight

 

Very good proposal.

 

A low-hood NS loco? Heresy!

 

That’s a high hood.

 

Exactly. NS is/was famous for them, along with long-hood-lead operation. The pic in the OP is a low-hood, which they have but which violate the 'tradition'

 

I remember how the C39-8 on Ts20xx got negative reviews cause people thought the cab was set up backwards, but no, thats how they were built,, and NS ran them that way sometimes.

 

Both Southern and N&W when they dieselized reckoned that, continuing on from steam operations, the engineer's proper place was in the back looking down the long nose of the loco. After the merger NS continued the tradition.

 

Then was it tradition to have switched to the standard North American cab design after the dash 8? Or the more unique Cresent design from the SD60E? So far, NS has already rebuilt many EMD units that are originally low hooded and still are low hooded as well. And those with high hoods, sure, they are still existing but in fewer numbers (either in storage or just gone). And I still see pictures that have units either with a wide cab or a low hood. It may look like tradition, but NS has gone with the standard design (as well as their own few rebuilds) of common locomotives like the rest of the Railroads in the US.

 

That was the old way of thinking; as the oldtimers retired I'm sure there was less and less attachment to it. Traditions fade. But at one time at NS it was a thing.