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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The horrors I could show you in a steam plant. So many things can kill you so horribly.
Have you heard the good word of hydraulic injection wounds?
Thanks, I hate it
Fun fact: there were actually times where railroads created train crashes as public attractions. One of the most well known is the Crush collision.
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?
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.
One of ever so many indications that idiots had money in earlier eras.

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