You made the right decision.

Rollin Robert's "PE" center cab engine design was the worst switcher I ever ran......with the added virtue of sucking fumes all shift (something Hutch mike actually like, though), and the worst cab layout ever for a switch engine, with perfectly placed shin high trip hazards, around every corner..... Horns aren't so sexy when you actually have to work in the damn thing. But, of course, the foamers couldn't get enough of them. There a probably a couple of hundred rail fan pictures of me running one, from when these were based out at Industry......

Sammie, you said it right, when you said GM made switch engines as God intended....I've run the orginal SP SW-1 all the way to the SW-1500. Give me one of those, and the work is even "fun". Switching cars is like a perfectly choreographed ballet, with a great GM switchers like those SP 2600's.