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I've never seen any of the larger Mother Hubbards in service, but I did see several of the smaller 0-6-0s and 0-4-0s in active service.īTW & FWIW - in the 70's we lived in McCloud for four years.1. It turned out that compounding didn't work as well as expected on railroad locomotives, and later articulated locomotives were built as 'simple' engines. This particular locomotive is interesting in that it is a true compound notice the size of the front low pressure cylinders compared to the high pressure cylinders on the rear engine. The fact that they burned the lowest quality of coal available didn't help! Hard coal required a fairly thin fire to burn well, thus a large area was required to burn the amount of fuel required to generate enough steam.

The design comes from the need for a very large firebox on locomotives burning hard coal. I believe this particular type of locomotive was typically used in 'helper service,' pushing coal trains over the mountains. IIRC there weren't many articulated locomotives built this way. The 'Mother Hubbards,' sometimes called 'camelbacks', common on railroads in the Anthricite (hard coal) region of Pennsylvania.

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