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The C&EI had a camelback switch engine with left hand controls, that they used to switch the coal dock at Joppa, Illinois which was also on a curve. There may have been many more cases of this modification, nationwide. From: Rupert & Maureen <gamlenz@ihug.co.nz> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, August 2, 2013 3:09 AM Subject: [CBQ] A piece of trivia From National Car Builder of May 1886 -
A switching locomotive has recently been built at the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy shops at Aurora, with the reverse lever on the
left-hand side. The engine is intended for work at one end of the Aurora yards
where there is a curve, and the object of placing the reverse lever on the
left-hand side is to enable the engineer to take signals from that side, which
is inside the curve.
Rupert Gamlen Auckland NZ __._,_.___
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