The Lackawanna had a very large amount of camelback engines. From road engines with a 4-4-0, 2-6-0, 4-6-0 for passenger and freight. To switch & pushers with 0-4-0,0-6-0,0-8-0,2-6-0,2-8-0,4-8-0. The Lackawanna was buying camelback engines up to 1912, and still running them into the 1939-42 years. From 1845-1912, the Lackawanna had bought over 500 camelback engines. Not a bad record for such a "dangerous" steam engine. Believe what you want, the Lackawanna had a good track record with camelback engines. But new technology was the way of the future and the lackawanna went with it, that and the ICC with so called death reports from the camelback engines probably with poor maintance or lack there of.
In the end of the year for 1912, was the first new modern steam engine bought which was NOT a camelback. It was the 1101-1114 series pacific's with a 73" driver.
