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Steam locomotive works by boiling water and then using the increased steam pressure to power Pistons.
The steam engines had one fatal flaw, and that was the extremely high pressures and temperatures that they needed to make it work.
But like all technological dead ends, it took one sectacular disaster to really force things to change.
We're going to talk about the one disaster that finally ended the steam engine.
The Chillicothe explosion likely happened because the water in the boiler fell too low during a hill climb.
Wikipedia records 53 boiler explosions in locomotives , claiming a total of 155 lives.
The earliest recorded incident happened in 1815 when 16 people were killed.
The last incident was in the 1995 explosion of a Gettysburg tourist train.
The Chillicothe explosion was the final nail in the coffin for steam trains.
Tourist trains are still in operation, though under stricter guidelines.
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