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The explosion that changed train engineering forever
Train design didn’t change gradually after World War II, it changed suddenly. A catastrophic boiler explosion in 1948 exposed ...
When the locomotives met, their boilers exploded almost simultaneously, hurling metal fragments and debris high into the air.
Division of Transportation Railroad Reference Files, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees ...
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