5 Steam Locomotives That Exploded | History in the Dark
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2024
- Sometimes locomotives explode. It's a thing that happens. Here's five times, specifically. It isn't every time, but it's five and that's what we're going with.
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![[SFS] This is a boxcar that ruined our week.](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/F-Jb1L8ShrY/mqdefault.jpg)
A simple comparison of the Shay, the Climax, and the Heisler is easy. If I’m not mistaken, The Shay was the most powerful one, the Climax was the cheapest one, and the Heisler was the fastest one
Huh? The Shay was the most powerful
I'm pretty sure he said that bud
@HenryGengler I didn’t know that fact until I stumbled across this comment
@@HenryGengler I didn’t think he didn’t say anything about the Climax being the cheapest of the three main geared steam locomotive types. That’s why I said it. BTW I learned this fact from a video presentation where it was explained by MRSR master mechanic Jack Anderson
As 'The Chieftain' would say, "They experienced a significant emotional event".
The only known steam locomotive boiler explosion in New Zealand was on a vertical-boiler contractor's loco called "Rover", in 1865. But NZR has had ita share of derailments etc, and unless it was near the end of steam (J1200 was scrapped after running into a slip in 1964), or a very old loco (1899-built B302 after a head-on collision in 1960). or a lemon like Ba555, they were repaired. Steam locomotives are very robust. Ka 945, for example, is with Steam Incorporated at Paekakariki. It's currently in a queue for an overhaul. I remember it being noisy in service out of proportion to its actual power, because in 1961 it hit a 40-ton boulder and its frames were bent. They still are.
The moral of the story here is treat your crown sheet like you'd treet your pets by giving them plenty of water.
The steamage in Germany litteraly went out with a bang.
in 1977 in Bitterfeld (east germany) a train crew on an important express train first had a melting plug failure on the first loco and got another fresh out of a main overhaul.
Due to POLITICS the train crew was denied to take on water (WTF!)
They nursed the locomotive to their designation but the water slushed in the boiler and the locomotive exploded in the middle of the crowed with people station.
The ecplosion was so big it was measured on the earthquake richter scale in West Germany.
The boiler was launched as a missle onto the platform and the cab was thrown onto the roof of the stationbuilding.
9 people on the platform died and the crew also perished.
Because the accident was due to POLITICS there was a big cover up and only after Germany was united again the full story was told.
In that time West germany was in the proces of ending its steamtraction and east Germany had a mostly worn out fleet of steamloco's and support infrastructure for them.
The steampunk metal gear has got to be the funniest thing I've seen in a while.
Most roads had skilled boilermakers in their maintenance crews along with skilled machinists so a loco rebuild was pretty common.
Astonishing that metal fatigue wasn't understood as a phenomena even into the jet age
There was also German DR 01 516 with Boiler Explosion 1977 in Bitterfeld with 9 deaths. It was the last Boiler explosions in Germany. Maybe a suggestion for the next 5 Steam Locomotives that explodes?
That was a very fishy one because the train crew was denied for POLITICAL reasons to take on water.
Not only the 9 passengers on the platform (7 instant 2 later) also the crew of the locomotive perished.
Would also add if with a copper firebox, if the crown sheet is exposed by low water levels, the copper will melt, the escaping steam and then water turning instantly to steam as exposed atmospheric pressure will rush through the rupture and through the firebox killing the crew. Nice.
There was actually a steam locomotive that exploded in my hometown. The locomotive in question was East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia railroad 419. The incident happened some time in 1892 in a town called Sherman Heights, just outside of East Chattanooga. As with most boiler explosions, 419’s was caused by a low water level. The locomotive was actually rebuilt after the incident, and actually survived into preservation. The locomotive was later acquired by the Southern Railway, the ETV&G’s successor, and became their engine 107. Southern Railway 107 later worked in Knoxville, Tennessee, and is now on display in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, just outside of Dollywood.
Another steam locomotive that suffered a boiler explosion was Maine Central 505 a W2 class consolidation in 1927. There's actually a song written about her and the disaster.
The crown sheet strikes again 💥🚂
Great work History in the Dark. That locomotive with legs was such a crazy design.
Welllll...rember that most citizens of the UK probably dislike British Rail far FAR more than you EVER will...they have to actually LIVE with it and put up with its failings..
I'm from the NC/SC area, and former member of The South Carolina Railroad Museum...in the past I've helped run the replica thats in the Charleston District...the fireman actually DIDNT die, and the cannon they made out of the old "Pheonix" is on display at the State Museum in Columbia SC, along with the SECOND replica train.
I'm from the UK. British Rail no longer exists. The trains are now run by a number of private companies while the track and signal infrastructure is in the hands of an organization called Network Rail. Service is still pretty terrible, however.
PRR 520 is currently at the PRR Museum in Strasburg, PA, however, she is separated from her tender and not in the best condition. Still it was good to get a chance to see the last of her class.
PRR 520 is currently going under cosmetic restoration by the museum
The pictures of 704 show the aftermath of what must have been one of the most violent boiler explosions in history.
You can see that the exploding fire box did spread the frames out and that caused the wheels of the rear axle been pressed of the axle and violently thrown to the side.
Just look to the bent rods which prevented the wheels from flying off, and the right hand side wheel even seems to have cracked and the steel tyre dislodged.
When considering that it takes around 100 tonnes of force to press a wheel onto an axle of this size and adding the force to bend the frames in such way and to fling the wheels forcefully away you can imagine the force exerted by the explosion.
But I remember seeing a picture of a locomotive which was pushed trough the right of way 3 feet deep into the ground by a boiler explosion.
Thomas the Engine goes Boom 🚂
When trains channel the souls of David Mitton and Michael Bay.
Another fascinating video, thank you for keeping us entertained; just a small pedantry point on UK placenames (yes, we're nasty with them) - the home of Philadelphia is pronounced "County Durrum", not "DurrHam".
There was also an interesting boiler explosion in 1970 in Fonyód, Hungary. An oil burning 520 class locomotive (a former german war locomotive given to hungary by the soviets) was parked on a sighting with its freight train. While workers at stations usually helped crews to guard idling locomotives so the crew can rest, no one at Fonyód station in that February day knew how to guard an oil burning loco. Both the driver and firemen fell asleep while they were idling at the sighting and of course the water level decreased enough for the safety valves to go off, that woke up the driver who instinctively filled the boiler up with water causing a crown sheet failure. The boiler blew upwards, flew over the station building and landed on a road, the driver was also found on said road, he was pressure cooked by the explosion, the firemen was thrown out in a different direction and had survived.
Later the fireman testified, that he was awake the whole time and left the loco (with the driver giving him clearance to do it) and only returned after the safety valves were already on and the explosion happened as he started to climb back up to the cab. The problem is that just minutes before the explosion, a station guard passed by the locomotive and climbed up to check if anyone was at the controls, it was at that time, he found both the crew members asleep in the cab. The fireman was sentenced to one year in prison for negligence, however it must be said, that the vent took a serious toll on his mental health, and while he stayed with MÁV (the hungarian national railway) he was demoted from fireman to grease buffers and clean mechanical parts.
Steam locomotives have surprising similarities with pressurized steam reactors nuclear reactors. Don't let them go dry. Going dry won't necessarily cause a steam explosion in a nuclear reactor, but without coolant the fuel rods will get so hot that they melt. That's what happened to Three Mile Island. A steam explosion actually blew up Chernobyl. They were edging low water in the reactor as a test. That combined with a run away chain reaction flashed any residual water into steam blowing it all to Hell. Then, the fuel melted down created demon formations in the basement that you still don't want to hang around for very long. In the 80s, you couldn't do so much as glance at the Elephant's Foot without signing your death warrant. Fun stuff.
How come you've been doing a lot of compilations recently? We haven't seen much original content (let alone video introductions) from you in a while.
Some original content to do would be some of the following videos:
The most obscure steam excursion star (Northern Pacific 328)
The largest plane to ever fly (Antonov 225 Mriya)
The most powerful steam engines of the north (DM&IR Yellowstones)
The very first, and finest, 4-8-4s (Northern Pacific Northerns)
The largest steam riverboat ever (American Queen)
The "Terror Train" sister of 1278 (Canadian Pacific 1293)
The real-life Little Engine That Could (C.P. Huntington)
The world's very first train (Trevithick)
The steam engines that were built well into the 1980s (various Chinese steam trains)
The world's best fighter aircraft (F-35 Lightning II)
Those are just some of the many ideas for videos that I'd like to see. Like I said, no pressure, of course.
No mention of Salamanca? Most likely the first locomotive to have a boiler explode
Ah yes the coffee pot locomotives sad to hear one exploded
I hope one of them wasn't Glenn...(Thomas and Friends reference)
@@s.p.d.magentaranger1822 Fr 🙏🙏💀
Would anyone have any info on a steam engine exploding at or near Birchton ,Qc., Ca.? It happened about 1951 to1953. Have spent hours searching thru records and found nothing. I believe that the engineer and fireman were both killed.
Ah that's too bad! I'd really be interested in anything you find.
My crown sheet photo at minute 16 or so, Santa Maria Valley #21. it didnt have a explosion. The Hysler #3 a few minutes later I have fired.
I have 3 locomotives that should get featured in your Next, never build locomotives video Darkness. Bombardier HR-406, HR-416, and HR-618
@History in the Dark you should cover the ghost train of Marshall pass
i have to do this as a UK fan of yours You pronounce Durham the same way you Pronounce Duran Duran but with a h before the a and m after (Im scottish my aunti comes from Durham)
don't you mean the water injector? I guess its possible that some one hadn't put it back to one piece correctly
Splody bois.
Ignorance just explains the ineptitude.
Well talk about explosive action
What? Steam engines were once concidered new???????
2:03 The Rainbow Sun
2:56 hi sup
That voice!
They didn't know about testing. Got it. =PC=
8:58 could just call it an o 4 o
3:03 What? Named after the one in the USA?
Just saw the friends of Charleston
How was the museum?
Likes to hear himself talk...
What did you say?
I couldn't hear you!
you neglected to mention that the fireman was an enslaved african american with the best friend of chareston
Did you just reuse footage from your other videos?
WHO is the 17 year old kid who wrote this?