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Nostalgia & History > Flare Friday . . .Date: 06/02/23 10:46 Flare Friday . . . Author: 3rdswitch . . . in AUG '73, a SOU 45 has found it's way to Toledo, OH, in runthrough service with B&O. Here, it is leading a B&O train south out of town.
JB  Date: 06/02/23 12:04 Re: Flare Friday . . . Author: Notch7 Thank you for posting the great pic of the 3161. It was from the Southern's last SD45 order in 1970. These had separate P-chime horn sets at each end blown electro-pneumatically. The earlier SOU SD45's had 5-chime Leslies mounted on the cab roof. Sadly those big beautiful Leslies couldn't send enough sound through that wall of V-20 in notch 8 exhaust when running long hood forward as intended. Sometimes people heard the bell before they heard the original Leslies, and complaints were sent up through the local safety committees and through written grievances. The P-chime mounted on the front of the newer SD45's made a differrence.
As a Southern engineer, I was a little less concerned about grade crossing accidents when running our SD45's forward with the long hood out. The bell was on that leading end and there was more collision protection, plus you were on the right side where you could see your block and fixed signals. We were used to running long hood forward on my district anyway. The long hood forward ALCO RS-3's were still our principal local freight engines. Running SOU SD45's backwards (short hood leading) was another thing. In a hard collision running running short hood lead, the engineer's door could cave in. One of our short engineers running this way hit a tractor trailer dump truck, and was buried up to his neck in sand from the truck. He was not able to work again. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/02/23 12:07 by Notch7. Date: 06/02/23 12:10 Re: Flare Friday . . . Author: texchief1 Excellent shot!
texchief1 RC Lundgren Date: 06/02/23 13:04 Re: Flare Friday . . . Author: SCKP187 Neat shot of long hood forward JB. So unusual in todays world of railroading
Brian Stevens Posted from iPhone Date: 06/02/23 19:29 Re: Flare Friday . . . Author: Rule99 Gotta love the flares... 👍
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