When the locomotives met, their boilers exploded almost simultaneously, hurling metal fragments and debris high into the air.
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The Train Explosion That Ended the Steam Era
In 1948, a devastating boiler explosion in Chillicothe, Ohio turned a steam locomotive into a twisted mass of metal and marked a symbolic end to steam’s dominance in American rail. Though not the ...
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