The Locomotive . A Recent Steam Pipe Explosion. THERE IS VALUABLE INFORMATION FOR YOUR ENGINEER IN THIS MAGAZINE. PLEASE LET HIM SEE IT. 98 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [October, A Recent Steam Pipe Explosion. THE explosion of an 8 inch steam pipe might not ordinarily bethought of as a very devastating type of accident but the ac-companying pictures show that such an accident may at timesapproach a boiler explosion in destructiveness. The explosion illus-trated occurred July 25, 1926. The property loss amounted to $17,-. FlG. I. 860. That no one was killed or seriously injured seems miraculous. The initial
The Locomotive . A Recent Steam Pipe Explosion. THERE IS VALUABLE INFORMATION FOR YOUR ENGINEER IN THIS MAGAZINE. PLEASE LET HIM SEE IT. 98 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [October, A Recent Steam Pipe Explosion. THE explosion of an 8 inch steam pipe might not ordinarily bethought of as a very devastating type of accident but the ac-companying pictures show that such an accident may at timesapproach a boiler explosion in destructiveness. The explosion illus-trated occurred July 25, 1926. The property loss amounted to $17,-. FlG. I. 860. That no one was killed or seriously injured seems miraculous. The initial rupture is thought to have been in an elbow on an 8inch steam line connecting a vertical water tube boiler with a 14 inchsteam header. The first break was followed, of course, by the generaldisruption of the steam piping. One piece of the pipe struck a watertank located in the rear of the boiler and knocked the tank over, atthe same time tearing it through the middle. The tank, in falling, 1926.] THE LOCOMOTIVE. 99 knocked over a Manning type boiler and the stacks of two other ver-tical boilers. Fortunately the Manning boiler was not in water tank was 17 ft. 6 inches in diameter and 67 ft. high, andwas full of water. The three boilers that were damaged were of the self-containedtype and stood, with the water tank, in an open space between theboiler room and the engine room. The adjacent walls and also theroofs of these two buildings were badly damaged. The maze of steam,water, gas and
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