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 Posted - November 11 2010 : 09:26:19 AM
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this was the worlds biggest loco back in the 1920s,the erie l1 ken
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Posted - November 11 2010 : 09:39:17 AM
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 that is a weird & neat 0-8-8-0 What the history on it?
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Posted - November 11 2010 : 09:46:56 AM
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not much out there ken
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erie_L-1
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Posted - November 11 2010 : 12:08:58 PM
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The Erie engineers had a name for class which was before the Erie called it L1 class. It was the " ANGUS ". There were 3 made in 1907 by ALCO. # 2600 to 2602. these were the only articulated camelbacks ever mede.
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Posted - November 11 2010 : 12:54:56 PM
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another interesting tit bit ken
http://www.trainweb.org/milepost51/railroad.html#L-1
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Posted - November 11 2010 : 4:53:24 PM
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Working in the cab on a Camelback right next to the boiler must have been dirty, cramped, and toasty, especially in the summer months. 
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Posted - November 11 2010 : 7:08:39 PM
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| I would hate to be in the cab if one of the rods let go from the wheels.
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Posted - November 12 2010 : 07:02:13 AM
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Actually, that's what happened to camelbacks. Production of new camelbacks was banned in the early 1920s because the cab location was inherently unsafe.
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Posted - November 12 2010 : 09:57:48 AM
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quote:I would hate to be in the cab if one of the rods let go from the wheels.
Originally posted by tkruger - November 11 2010 : 7:08:39 PM
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Haven't you seen a photo of what happens to the cab when this happens. Not much of the cab is left.
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Posted - November 12 2010 : 10:24:06 AM
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never knew this ken
What is the difference between a Camelback and a Mother Hubbard?
The Wootten boilered "Mother Hubbard" locomotives (often called "Camelbacks" today) should not be confused with the earlier true Camelback locomotives that were developed and built by Ross Winans around 1847 and 1848. The Ross Winans locomotives had the cab located on top of the boiler and burned anthracite coal in narrow fireboxes situated between the driving wheels. These locomotives, were originally called "Camels" and later "Camelbacks".
The more recent locomotives (since 1877) built with a central cab astride the boiler and with wide Wootten fireboxes situated above the drivers are more accurately called "Mother Hubbards". However, in later years they were loosely referred to as "Camelbacks" too. Most of the photos and locomotives descrived in these pages are technically "Mother Hubbards".
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Posted - November 12 2010 : 2:00:32 PM
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They all were camelbacks or mother hubbards, which ever name you wish to use. Railroad people will know what you are talkin about.
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Posted - November 12 2010 : 3:08:56 PM
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| hi frank what you gotta remember is there are guys on here that don`t remember seeing steam in all its glory,they are lucky if they go to preserved lines and see them,its those guys i do this for and myself as i have never seen a american loco in full steam pounding the rails ken
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