CRAZY! Camelback 0-6-0 vs 19999.9 tons coal! - Trainz

A camelback locomotive (also known as a Mother Hubbard or a center-cab locomotive) is a type of steam locomotive with the driving cab placed in the middle, astride the boiler. Camelbacks were fitted with wide fireboxes which would have severely restricted driver visibility from the normal cab location at the rear.

Reading only had 3 Camelback B-8-a 0-6-0 which had 50in driver, a pair of 20x26in cylinder, and was working at 200psi. Heating surface area was 1735sq.ft. How many Reading B-8-a will be needed to tow a 19000 tons coal train at an acceptable speed?

If you are living in the 1910s, would you wanna become an engineer of B-8-a, burning by the boiler in your cap day and night?

Thank you for watching.....and thinking! :-P

(The Reading Camelback is a Freeware of Jointed Rail)