. Book of the Royal blue . safely be assumedthat all previously built engines musthave been considerably lighter. The variety of locomotive still knownas the -camel back was first built byRoss Winans between 1850 and were the first 30-ton engines everused in any part of the world, and theirfame was spread abroad in the to one modern class of engines,which shall here be nameless, they wereperhaps the ugliest locomotives whichhave ever been built. Their bare un-protected fire-boxes hung over the rearwheels with a downward slant from theboiler. The fire-box had two chutes,thr
. Book of the Royal blue . safely be assumedthat all previously built engines musthave been considerably lighter. The variety of locomotive still knownas the -camel back was first built byRoss Winans between 1850 and were the first 30-ton engines everused in any part of the world, and theirfame was spread abroad in the to one modern class of engines,which shall here be nameless, they wereperhaps the ugliest locomotives whichhave ever been built. Their bare un-protected fire-boxes hung over the rearwheels with a downward slant from theboiler. The fire-box had two chutes,through which coal was supplied at in-tervals by opening slides worked by alever. The cab was placed on the top ofthe boiler and steps leading from it to a. HAYES DUTCH WAGON. gangway which ran back to the fireman must have had a dangerousjourney to and fro when his camelback was running at high speed. Thebeauty of this engine, as originally built,was not enhanced by a spark arrester, which took the form of a short piece ofduplicate funnel placed directly in frontof the ordinary one. One feature of these locomotiveswhich attracted great attention from theengine men of that day was the horizon-
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