- 19 days
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
- 19 days
The pipes are there to increase the surface area exposed to the coal bed heat.
- 19 days
It would also be super impractical to have a fire going underneath the entire boiler 😅 Much better to send the hot air «through» the water in pipes.
- 18 days
Yeah, well, this image clearly says otherwise
- 19 days
The horrors I could show you in a steam plant. So many things can kill you so horribly.
- 18 days
Have you heard the good word of hydraulic injection wounds?
- 18 days
Hard pass. I feel that this is one of those cases where ignorance is bliss.
Fun fact: there were actually times where railroads created train crashes as public attractions. One of the most well known is the Crush collision.
- jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish18 days
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?
- CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish18 days
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.
- GreyEyedGhost@piefed.caEnglish18 days
One of ever so many indications that idiots had money in earlier eras.
19 daysGhost trains are a thing, why not eldritch horror trains too?
- 18 days
This is why you’re supposed to suplex trains, not attack their heads.
