Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 159
es of bothboilers were thrown entirely out of the grounds on which the boilers stood, and lodgedon the railroad tracks, some 200 feet from their original positions. According to one of our inspectors, who visited the place shortly after Jthe explo-sion, the shell plates showed a muddy cast, and… … Fig. 2.—General View of the Ruins. areas where the thickness was only \ of an inch. In some places the corrosive actionhad been still more severe, so that hardly more than T\ of an inch of metal was left.We cannot say positively that this corrosion was the cause of the explosion, because wewere…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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