Live close to railroad tracks constantly see cars being pulled with one engine forward and one backward. The one that really stumped me yesterday, was a train that started with 5 engines in the following orientation: forward, backward, forward, forward, backward
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Locomotives are hooked up in whatever direction they happen to face. But you always want the front engine facing forward of course, and it’s ideal to have the last engine facing backwards. This allows the train to be ran back the other direction at the end of the line without having to turn the train around. The driver simply switched to the rear engine and now it’s the front of the train. My source is my grandfather who has worked the railroad since before the steam engines were retired.
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