This decades old picture remains intensely creepy but the reality was much worse than even the grim image suggests.
“A boiler explosion is a catastrophic failure of a boiler. There are two types of boiler explosions. One type is a failure of the pressure parts of the steam and water sides. There can be many different causes, such as failure of the safety valve, corrosion of critical parts of the boiler, or low water level. Corrosion along the edges of lap joints was a common cause of early boiler explosions.
The second kind is a fuel/air explosion in the furnace, which would more properly be termed a firebox explosion. Firebox explosions in solid-fuel-fired boilers are rare, but firebox explosions in gas or oil-fired boilers are still a potential hazard.”
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This event occurred in 1948, not 1943 as I state in the video. Sorry for the mistake.
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Water go forward. Boiler get really hot. Water go back. Water touch hot boiler. Water evaporate really really fast. Water expand. Boiler goes kaboom. Everyone dies
Incompetent operators ……somethings never change….😳
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Your diagram is terribly wrong regarding superheater part. I see a lot of comments from "engineers" stating how good and clean it is. Did you just bought those comment? Either that or I feel bad about those "engineers" and the education system
Only in Ohio
U need to get a proper narrator…..zzzzzzz
If the crew of the steam engine ignored the pressure gauge and not putting sufficient water in the boiler. The temperature of the boiler will increase bejond 300 – 400°C when steel looses its strength (not red glowing or melting). A pressure bejond the safety limit and a weakened boiler structural material it will burst.
Dang it’s always in Ohio 💀💀💀
What a horrible way to go. I'd want a coup de grace
This is an absolutely great channel!
"This steam is under a lot of pressure, and needs somewhere to go."
me too, steam. me too…
Such a good explanation. Steam trains are the literal definition of "Take care of me and I'll take care of you".
In a nutshell this is analogous to a nuclear meltdown.
Water level below the tubes, you stop firing and run like hell. Adding water when it’s that low is guaranteed explosion.
Resembles a trucking incident where load of rods go through cab due to improper loading and braking.
should've used graphite control rods for moderation.
This is a joke, please dont lynch me, steam engine nerds.
Ohio loco.
You should go into politics. You can talk for minutes without actually saying a thing.
Only in ohio
It looks like parasites emerging.
FUN FACT: after this they made a movie called “THE POLAR EXPRESS”
As a nuclear engineering student, I am quite familiar with the terror that is steam. Knowing what steam can do to nuclear reactors on a bad day, I imagine that a locomotive is not any better of a place to be when one occurs.
This is what would have happened to the poler express when the hero boy and the bum were skiing down the top of the train.
We can’t even drive a train in Ohio💀
You also forgot to mention that Super heated steam has enough heat energy to ignite and burn wood and clothing unlike your normal steam vapor. Knowing that imagine the superheated steam instantly rushed out and come into contact on your skin and clothing, it’s pretty much like standing in fire on its own and will melt and burn everything besides the damage from explosion.
If we had nuclear trains, this would have been a chernobyl event.
That looks like a slenderman train.
That's a SCP
I wonder how did that explosion sound
Nah of course it's gonna be in ohio
I'm anything about trains, really but I'm a master plumber/gas fitter and that photo doesn't make sense to me. Granted I'm trained in modern plumbing but increase in volume equals decrease in pressure as a scientific principle. Why wouldn't trains use 'trunk' lines with branches to fuel the pistons so you can control your volume decrease/pressure increase? Can someone explain how anyone is able to work in any room w/ that many hot pipes running through it? I appreciate you're story telling, qxir, but I genuinely want to know how its possible and why they did it that way
Steam engines are terrifying when you think about how it’s basically a heated pressurized bomb if something malfunctions or someone makes a very human mistake. I’ve seen some of these little hobby steam engines for sale on the internet, and it just feels like a very bad idea for anyone not familiar with the dangers. Even a very small steam engine can cause massive damage/death if it explodes.
This is not the worest one. Sometimes the exploding locos also destroyed parts of the train behind. By the way you forgot to explain the main safety mechanisms.
80 psi is 5 atmosphere
according to what, I hear.
Looks like a Beksinski work.
he snapped
The picture is scary.
RIP. Unforgettable.
I would say that the boiler blew……..wouldn`t YOU?????????
Trainthulu
My dad held the title of "Chief Enginer" at a paper mill in the mid 50's. The mill went through a few years of modernising with a new paper machine being built. A new boiler was also built to replace 7 older 225 lb stoker fed boilers of the early 1900's. The new boiler was of a German design that burnt pulverised coal that was blown into the fire box. The boiler held a presure of 900 lbs psi. as well running two new steam turbines to generate 75 % of electric used to run 5 other paper machines and auxillary equipment. The new boiler shortly after it's trial stage in May of 1956, had an explosian in the boiler, it buckeled the several cat walks and ladders around the exteriour of the boiler. My dad was not fired as he was not present at the time, but there were several other people that were. Seams the new boiler had lost it's fire, and instead of waiting the a determined cool down time it was instead relighted hot and an explosian resulted. It could have been much worse with loss of lives and much new equipment. After several weeks of inspection along with repairs, the boiler was finally brought up to being operational and run the paper mill all the way untill the mill was shut down in the year 2000. Sadly, the boiler, turbine's, paper machines were all scraped, with the mill finally being torn down in 2006. What a sad waste of machinery and jobs.
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only in ohio 💀
I feel like almost every northeastern railroad had a locomotive called a T1 type
You can actually see this happen for yourself in a train simulation called derail valley, there is steam loclomotives and if you deprive them of water and run them at high temperatures this will happen. It's a scary sight to see in game and is unnerving to see.
Train in OHIO 💀
It's an SCP
average train in ohio:
When operated correctly, steam engines are really safe, many times safer than cars, but operating them correctly requires significantly more knowledge than driving a car, heck may be on par with flying a plane in terms of complexity. As mentioned in the video though, these incidents are very scarce and for about everything except low water level and wrongly switched switches, there are failsafes like the two valves that ensure the pressure in the boiler never exceeds its safe range