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 Posted - November 12 2014 : 6:55:47 PM
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Found this on google looking for camel back engines. A 2-6-0 square tanked tank engine.
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Looks as if a Roundhouse 2-6-0 could be a good a start if one wanted to model such an engine.
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Posted - November 12 2014 : 7:44:00 PM
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As they always say, there's a prototype for everything. This loco is probably some experimental locomotive.
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Posted - November 13 2014 : 01:45:49 AM
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| This configuration was actually fairly common, probably just not we are accustomed to seeing.
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Posted - November 13 2014 : 11:36:32 AM
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quote:This configuration was actually fairly common, probably just not we are accustomed to seeing.
Originally posted by metalsmith1Â -Â November 13 2014Â :Â 01:45:49 AM
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yeah in UK! but not in the USA 
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Posted - November 15 2014 : 11:47:20 AM
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quote:Found this on google looking for camel back engines. A 2-6-0 square tanked tank engine.
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Looks as if a Roundhouse 2-6-0 could be a good a start if one wanted to model such an engine.
Originally posted by Redneck Justin - November 12 2014 : 6:55:47 PM
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RJ: Yeah, a Roundhouse mogul would probably be the closest thing in current production, though it's a comparatively mighty beast. This little mogul is more like a Bachmann Jupiter with another driver. That would be a challenging project, due to Bachmann's $%#%$ construction methods.
I would guess this was a late-1800s rebuild used for yard switching. It's cute as a bug...and in that era, for yard switching, tank switchers were indeed common. Even for light road service, they were more common than they became later.
Judging by the human scale, it also has the hobgoblin of the Yahoo early-rail group: 57" drivers. They were almost a standard size for decades, and yet they are the hardest size to find in model form, in the US (and British drivers have too many spokes). 51", 62", 69", 72", 80", you can get. But there are very few 57".
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Posted - November 15 2014 : 8:46:27 PM
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My question is: who owned the prototype, and when?
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Posted - November 16 2014 : 12:20:01 AM
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| Did you notice those counterweights on the drivers? I've never seen them made like that.
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Posted - September 13 2015 : 2:52:35 PM
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This could also be a commuter train locomotive. The lack of a tender would eliminate the need for a turntables at both ends of a short commuter train run and the limited range due to fuel and water capacity would not be a concern.
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Posted - September 13 2015 : 3:32:37 PM
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This is Camelback Engine No. 542, built in the early 1870s and being used in Havana, Ohio to switch cars. The locomotive is on the main track with three other yard tracks next to the main. This 1870s picture shows the water tank built around the boiler top, thus its name, Camelback. Note the large whale oil head lamps, the flared smokestack, the steam dome with whistle and lever fastened directly to the dome. The wood box containing the fuel for switching or very short trips. For longer trips, a car loaded with wood to supply the engine would be needed. This engine was junked in 1895.
http://www.huroncolib.org/RailroadPictures
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Posted - September 13 2015 : 5:01:09 PM
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Thanks for the prototype info!
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