by flexliner
How is track visibility when controlling an engine long hood forward?
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by wigwagfan
About the same as the visibility out of a GS-4 class locomotive running 90 MPH down the Coast Line.
by Engineer Spike
Running a locomotive is not the same as driving a car for one simple reason; you don't have to steer. With someone on both sides of the cab, all that is needed is to watch the signals. Other than that, there really isn't much that has to be seen. One area of my run seems to always have heavy fog. I could catch the signal, so that there was no need to slow down. That's the beauty of being on a fixed guideway.