What is the strangest steam locomotive?

The most unusual steam locomotives ever built were the cab-forwards and camelback locomotives. The cab forwards had their driver and fireman's cab opposite the tender instead of next to it so that the crews could avoid being asphyxiated by smoke from the funnels as they traveled through sheds over the Sierra Nevada.



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