Locomotive Boiler Remains 1947

  Sun 6/30/2013

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The remains of a locomotive boiler that exploded on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in 1947—a larger and much more modern locomotive than the locomotive from 1892. You can see in the photograph the curved boiler shell, the flat sheets of the firebox, the staybolts that connected the firebox sheets to the boiler shell, and how the steel plates had been ripped apart by the force of the explosion.

Contact/Location

Matt Keenan
CUSHING, WI
715.648.5000