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
The pipes are there to increase the surface area exposed to the coal bed heat.
Yeah, well, this image clearly says otherwise
Clearly
You son of a bitch, you got me.
Thanks, I hate it
Fun fact: there were actually times where railroads created train crashes as public attractions. One of the most well known is the Crush collision.
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?
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.
The horrors I could show you in a steam plant. So many things can kill you so horribly.
Have you heard the good word of hydraulic injection wounds?
Ghost trains are a thing, why not eldritch horror trains too?
The little engine that p’tach tlarrggma’ggogth
That’s just Demon Slayer’s Mugen Train
You have caused confusion and R’lyeh.
