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The Locomotive (1867)

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 457

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blown through the air aquarter of a mile where it crashed through a derrick of another drillingcontractor. The wrecked derrick and the fire box section of the boilerwhich did the damage are shown in Figure 2 on Page 179. Fire tube boilers on track locomotives were also the source of fiveother… … Figure j—Weighing )nore than 40 tons, this track locoinotiiL boilerwas hurled f,oo when low water caused failure of the crown sheet. I94I THE LOCOMOTIVE 183 yards at Denver. A news account of this latter explosion stated that theboiler and cab were lifted from the undercarriage, hurled 60 in the…

Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions

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