Camelback Locomotive

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A camelback 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.

The camelback design was developed separately by two different railroads in different eras.

Though the name is common to both designs, they had little in common other than the placement of the cab.