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Clinchfield RR brakeman's cab on tender

Forum dedicated to the Seaboard System Railroad and its predecessors, aka The Family Lines System, prior to its operational merger with the Chessie System, forming CSX, in 1982. Predecessors included the Atlantic Coast Line, the West Point Route, the Clinchfield, the Louisville and Nashville, the Seaboard Air Line, and the Seaboard Coast Line.

Clinchfield RR brakeman's cab on tender

  by Slobo
 
Does anyone know when the Clinchfield started carving out the front left corner of its tenders for the Head Brakeman? Trying to determine if this was begun in or before the 1930s with is my primary timeframe. I've seen a few photos, but all I believe from the mid-late 1940s of this cab (signified by a window on the front left corner of the tender), of L-Class mallets and presumably other freight haulers of the same 1940s period.
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