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Originally Posted by SCadaddle
"Big boy is 132 ft long and weighs 600 tons. this should be quite a site!"
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And about 90% of that is boiler, the actually engines are small comparatively.
Anyone who has worked on and around high pressure boilers knows how dangerous they can be.
I'd venture to guess that over the years more people have been killed in boiler and steam accidents than any other category of industrial accidents.
We don't hear about it much anymore with all the regulations and licenses and controls, but in the late 1800s and early 1900s it was really bad.