Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 512
1933 THE LOCOMOTIVI. 233 flying fragments of the wheel also badly injured one of the members of the firm who was in the doorway to the engine room, and someparts of the wheel were found six hundred feet away. The flywheelwas of cast iron. 14 feet in diameter with a rim 25 wide and 2 thick. … Engine room after the shattering of the flywheel. All that remains of the wheelis the hub and three spokes. It had 8 arms, was in two sections and weighed about 7 tons. Theengine was not insured. The devastating energy of bursting flywheels also was illustratedrecently by several accidents to small…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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