IN that era, it was VERY unusual to have a GP leading on the West end of a train. Normally, then as now, the trains actual power would be on the East end of the train and the Cab-HEP unit on the West end. What has probably occurred here is that the FA Cab-Car has had some problems with its train control equipment, such that the GP which would have normally run short-hood eastward, had to be turned on the Montauk wye and placed on the head end. Trains that length are normally a summer season thing, though, and would have been highly unlikely in mid-February, even on a Sunday evening.
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