my05hammer wrote:
Were the ALCO RS3's built to run long nose foreward, short nose foreward, or either direction?
Like some other first generation diesels (EMD's GP-7 for example) the RS-3 could be set up with either nose as the front. It was up to the railroad buying them to decide which way it wanted them. For example, Great Northern ran both their early high-nose GP's and their RS-3's long hood forward, next door neighbor Northern Pacific had their GP's and RS-3's set up short hood forward.
A few railroads even had dual controls so the engine could be easily operated in either direction, but still one end or the other was designated with an "F" as the front.
