"LHF" running. Southern Railway and Norfolk and Western Railway operated their locomotives bidirectionally to make coal shifting more efficient. By putting the engineer on the right side with the Long Hood Forward, the engineer could see signals down the long hood and around the short hood for operations in both directions.

Photographed by Bruce Macdonald, July 31, 1987.
Added to the photo archive by Bruce Macdonald, July 9, 2019.
Railroad: Norfolk Southern.

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