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From: Ed Montgomery etmontgomery46 AT gmail DOT com
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 08:13:39 -0500
Subject: Re: (erielack) [REPOST] Re: How would you ride the Camel?
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I just happen to have a copy of TRAIN WRECKS by Robert C. Reed. Here are
the results of side rods breaking loose on a camelback. Not a pleasant
situation for anybody in the cab.

Ed Montgomery

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 7:53 PM, fred heilich wrote:

>
> There was a book that was published some 40 tears ago on train accidents
> that had several photos showing the engineers's cab wiped off from a broken
> side or main rod. The shots were all of the engineer's side. The sleeve
> of the book had a wreck photo in brown with a yellow background. My copy
> is packed away.
> My recollection was that they were banned due to the engineer being
> blindsided in the cab with no verbal communication with the fireman or
> front brakeman. Some of the eastern roads had the cabs moved to the
> conventional location with the cabs oddly positioned on the rear of he
> Wooten fireboxes.
> Fred Heilich
>
>


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