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| This article badly needs an expansion to non-North American railways. For example, the Russian TEM-7 is a hood unit built in thousands of examples. Other hood units were built by CKD in Czechia, in China, and in Australia. Jim (talk) 18:36, 1 December 2008 (UTC) |
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Deleted "This was originally done to avoid union conflicts, as the high nose ensured that two crewmen (one on each side of the cab) were required in order to see both sides of the track.[citation needed]" Not only is it uncited (after 13 years!), but it also is historically nonsensical. Union contracts with US railroads up until about 1970 mandated a five-man crew whether there was any need for them or not (management especially resented having to pay flagmen, whose job was long obsolete). Solicitr (talk) 23:49, 5 March 2021 (UTC)