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[–] 43 points 1 month ago (5 children)

That is really interesting. I have never read about this, so the thing about the pipes was new to me. Here's a cutaway look into a steam locomotive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_locomotive#/media/File:Cutaway_steam_locomotive.jpg

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    The horrors I could show you in a steam plant. So many things can kill you so horribly.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Have you heard the good word of hydraulic injection wounds?

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)
    [–] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Fun fact: there were actually times where railroads created train crashes as public attractions. One of the most well known is the Crush collision.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    That’s crazy. I guess like the monster truck shows I remember as a kid in the 80s. SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!

    My first question was about safety.

    Unexpectedly, the impact caused both engine boilersto explode, resulting in a shower of flying debris that killed two people[1] and caused numerous injuries among the spectators.

    And was that really so “unexpected” that they exploded?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    People were just really dumb about boiler explosions for a long time. Missisipi river boats for example had a period where maintenance was almost non-existant and they were almost always overloaded with passengers/cargo but the inevitable boiler explosions were considered to be acts of god. Huge disconnect between the people making the boilers and the people using them.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    Ghost trains are a thing, why not eldritch horror trains too?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago*

    The little engine that p'tach tlarrggma'ggogth

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago*

    That's just Demon Slayer's Mugen Train

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Charles is a very bad train

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    You have caused confusion and R'lyeh.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Blaine is a pain, and that is the truth.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    This is why you're supposed to suplex trains, not attack their heads.

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