Sumpter 250's duff challenge

[Sumpter250]

That's some great work you did there Sumpter. I love the articulates almost as much as I like Camels... I am watching this thread carefully because I think my next center-cab will use this drive.........[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]

June 1970 issue of "Railroad" ( it took me a while to find, there's only the three pages I saved ) has photos of Erie RR, Camel Back 0-8-8-0's. There were only three of them ever built 2600, 2601, and 2602. The cab sat just forward of the main engine cylinders, and went forward to just behind the smoke box / boiler junction. They were sent to Baldwin to be rebuilt as conventional 2-8-8-2's in 1921.
I couldn't find any information about 2-6-6-2 Camel Backs, but that's still an interesting idea.....O K , different.