Talk:Hood unit

Assessment comment
Substituted at 18:14, 29 April 2016 (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." 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)

Strange subject range?
This article mentions North America, which is pretty unobjectionable, and then several European countries at random, and then South Korea, China and Indonesia.

I do not think this focus is particularly useful, and is in fact narrow - most locomotives mentioned in the Indonesian, Turkish, and Korean sections are US-made exports that are relatively globally distributed.

I think the article would cover more ground if this was abstracted into being by continent, too - all European rail networks have some variety of hood unit, and Asia, Africa, and South America have a great many US-built export designs that could be covered, without listing individual countries as headings. ConnieC420 (talk) 20:55, 15 July 2024 (UTC)