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The C&EI had a camelback engine set up like this to work the coal dock at Joppa. Yes, that's right a camelback in Southern Illinois! From: Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 6, 2013 1:00 PM Subject: RE: [CBQ] A piece of trivia Rupert and all- I had heard that there was a similar engine used in the lumber district with left-hand drive due to the configuration of the sidings there. Charlie Vlk 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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