The short hood is indeed the rear. Most of the GP9's the B&O ordered, (not counting the ones they took from the C&O) were set up to run long hood forward.
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Also, if you look REALLY closely, you can see the "F" painted on the yellow frame stripe just behind the employee with his shirt open (appalling by today's standards of PPE ) that indicates that is the front of the locomotive.
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