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be in another part of the building. The front of the building I».?- T H E LO CO M OT I V K 17 was blown out and a store next door was considerably damaged. A safety valve in which the spring had not been screwed down butwhich in another way had been made jusl as ineffective as the one men-tioned… … Figure 2 of course, that this valve should be kept open. In some way it becameclosed with the result that the locomotive-type boiler dropped its crownsheet, tore in two at the throat sheet, and traveled abruptly up themain street of the town. The barrel, shown in Figure 2, shot forward300 feet to…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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