Why Did Southern Pacific Build Locomotives BACKWARDS
If you've ever looked at a photograph of a Southern Pacific locomotive and felt like something was wrong, you weren't imagining it. Everything about the machine is reversed. The cab rides at the front, the smokestack sits at the back, and the whole locomotive looks like it rolled off the assembly line facing the wrong way.
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