. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . gone away. .\switchman was standing about three carsin the rear of the engine, and says thathe heard a small report and the engine some distance away, who was struck byone of the hand-rails, but his injurieswere not serious. The great destruction shown in theboiler is pretty good evidence that therewas lots of water present—disastrousboiler explosions do not occur from ex-tremely low water. Just what the causeof this explosion was will perhaps neverbe known, but the old and sound ihcorythat the boiler wa
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . gone away. .\switchman was standing about three carsin the rear of the engine, and says thathe heard a small report and the engine some distance away, who was struck byone of the hand-rails, but his injurieswere not serious. The great destruction shown in theboiler is pretty good evidence that therewas lots of water present—disastrousboiler explosions do not occur from ex-tremely low water. Just what the causeof this explosion was will perhaps neverbe known, but the old and sound ihcorythat the boiler was not strong enough tostand the pressure is explanation enough. From the looks of the wreck, it would flash into steam to do this amount of dam-age. However this may be, the explosionwas certainly a serious one. and it is in-deed lucky that the crew and workmen inthe neighborhood were not about theengine. i g i A Big Business. There are miles oi railroad in theUnited States. In 1895 they carried543, passengers and moved 763- tons of Passenger trains. WRECK OF MACHINERY .XFTIiR EXPLOSION OF BOILER. Started back, and then a very loud reportas the explosion took place. As will be seen, the boiler tore itselfaway from the machinery entirely, thelargest part of it going over the coal chuteand landing 600 feet the other side. Thispiece is shown in the upper picture onpage 887, just as it landed, half buried inthe soil. It was pulled out with a loco-motive, and presented the appearanceshown in the second picture. The barrel of the boiler, together withthe tubes, as shown in the lower picture,landed in the yard, about 100 feet aheadof where the engine stood. The onlyperson injured was an engine watchman. seem as though this explosion took placesimply from over-pressure. In that case,something must have been the matterwith the safety valves. As will be seen in the picture on thispage, what appears to have been the (ire-box was blown down and remains d
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