Why did EMD SD40’s have a “Snoot” nose option? What was the Snoot for?
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Hey ! I’ve been thinking that!
I seem to recall that it was SD40-2’ with the snoot occupying the long front verandah. I don’t think that the rest of the bodywork moved back… did it?
I heard that the snoot contained radio gear for remote helper control… don’t know if this is correct or, if it is, whether this was the sending gear, receiving gear or both.
I’ve seen Kato SD 40-2s in ATSF and UP liveries. Don’t know if anyone else had them???
There seem to have benn at least two different snoot lengths???
Thanks for any more specific help anyone [8D]
This may be of help…
It was too accomodate radio control equipment. Send and recieve. There were at least 2 different nose lengths. By the time Distributed Power came around the hardware was small enough it could fit in a box bolted to the bulkhead and didn’t require extra space. Dave H.
The Kansas City Southern had 14 SD40-2 “Snoots” which were used for helper service.
JIM
Some Canadian Pacific SD40-2’s were built with a snoot nose that was shorter than US versions. Canadian National rebuilt a batch of SD40’s with an extended nose very similar to the US version. Southern Pacific had extended noses on a small series of Locotrol-equipped SD40T-2’s.
Both SP and SSW had them, 84 total. This is about 1/3 of the total amount of SD40T-2s SP and SSW had. Actually, SSW only had long nose SD40T-2s.
SP 8300-8321, SSW 8322-8326, SP 8327-8341, SP 8350-8371, SSW 8372-8376, SP 8377-8391