Just for the record, the Santa Fe DID have a for real camelback. A 4-4-2 #738, built in 1889, the 2nd 4-4-2 ever built according to Worley (photo on p 233). The Santa Fe didn’t like it for a number of reasons, and by 1892 it was rebuilt to a conventional cab 4-4-0.
Phil
Here are some of the camelback plans that have appeared in model train mags:
Erie camelback articulated, (0-8-8-0, L-1, simplistic plans), RMC February 1955, p. 22 Photo at: http://www.mrmuffinstrains.com/TrainPictures/Prototype%20Erie2601.jpg
Reading camelback 2-8-0 Class I8sa, Baldwin 1905, MR June 1972, p. 56
Reading 0-4-0 switcher, A4a (4 wheel tender) and A4b (8 wheel tender), MR July 1974, p. 56
Photo – A5 0-4-0 http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/rdg/rdg-s1159o.jpg
Lehigh Valley’s 2-8-2 Camelbacks, plans and photos, MR, February, 1979, p. 89
Reading Camelback Americans, Class D-8c, circa 1911, MR, December 1982, p. 102.
Lehigh Valley Camelback Pacific and Mikado, (simple add-ons to Mantua camelbacks), MR, August 1984, p. 68
Reading RR Atlantics, (circa 1905), MR, February 1988, p. 89
Philadelphia & Reading 4-4-0 of the 1890s, info and plans, MR, April 1992, p. 93
The Wheeling & Lake Erie had three Camelback locos. They were eventually converted to “normal” cab in the rear engines.
A long time ago, I purchased some drawings of camels from the Reading Historical Society. It had to have been 25-30 years ago; I don’t know if they still have them or not.
dlm
