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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway locomotive no. 3020: 12 May 1948: Locomotive USA: Near Chillicothe, Ohio: 3: 0 [58] Union Pacific 9018: 20 October 1948: Locomotive United States: 1.97 miles (3.17 km) east of Upland, Kansas: 3 [59] Deutsche Reichsbahn 95 6679: 4 May 1951: Locomotive East Germany: Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works, Meiningen: 11 ...
The ship drifted approximately 100 yards before sinking to the bottom of the Ohio river. [4] [7] Negligence may have been a factor in the explosion: many eyewitness reports claimed that Captain Perin had been racing another riverboat, the Ben Franklin (1836) at the time of the explosion, and therefore the pressure in the boilers was excessively ...
The Chesapeake and Ohio T-1 was a class of forty 2-10-4 steam locomotives built ... On May 12, 1948, no. 3020 suffered a boiler explosion due to a low water level ...
The PS Anthony Wayne (also known as Anthony B. Wayne or General Wayne) was an early wooden-hulled sidewheel steamship [A] that sank on April 28, 1850, in Lake Erie off the coast of Vermilion, Ohio, after two of her starboard side boilers exploded. The number of people on board the ship at the time of incident is estimated to be about 100.
Boiler explosions are common in sinking ships once the hot boiler touches cold sea water, as the sudden cooling of the hot metal causes it to crack; for instance, when the SS Benlomond was torpedoed by a U-boat, the torpedoes and resulting boiler explosion caused the ship to go down in two minutes, leaving Poon Lim as the only survivor in a ...
The Lucy Walker steamboat disaster was an 1844 steamboat accident caused by the explosion of the boilers of the steamboat Lucy Walker near New Albany, Indiana, on the Ohio River. The explosion occurred on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 23, 1844, when the steamer's three boilers exploded, set the vessel on fire, and sank it. It was one of a ...
At a 10 p.m. briefing Tuesday, Siefke said there are still concerns about a possible explosion, although the car's temperature has been lowered by spraying it with water. 'Could’ve been a lot worse'
BLEVE–fireball, 2008 Toronto propane explosion The following is a list of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) accidents. It shows whether the accident occurred during dangerous goods transportation or at a fixed facility, the accident origin (e.g., storage, process reactor, rail tank car, tank truck), the material involved, its amount, the number of fatalities, and whether a ...