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Tom, I'm not a follower of Santa Fe locomotive practice. But on the NP there was a similar setup: You could see the North Coast Limited being hauled by an AABA set. The front two A's were both cab forward, while the last a was cab rear. But the reason they did that was not fear of unit failure, as it might be suggest by our discussion. The front A was added on the normal consist to get over steep grades. It was essentially a front-end helper. I can't dispute what your source said about the Santa Fe. It's hard to believe, but perhaps they also had poor maintenance and had too many unit failures on their trains. Ed Edward Sutorik
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