"Ok, I think we should make a big steel cylinder with lots of tubes rivetted and/or welded in place, fill it with thousands of gallons of really hot water and pressurize it to 250 or 300 pounds per square inch, Then we should put it on wheels and run it down a railway track at 60 or 80 mph. What could go wrong?"
In this explosion, it looks like the front end of the boiler blew forward, tearing off the smoke box and smokestack, dragging most of the tubes along with them. No word on how the crew fared.
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