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If you’re the first to
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we use it, it’s worth $25!
The general-purpose tank car in this video is a demo of how a tank car
can accidentally implode from steam cleaning. The proposed scenario is
an employee steam-cleans the car inside and then closes it down without
opening the relief valves. With no pressure relief as it cooled, when the
boiling steam inside the car cooled and condensed, the car imploded.
Now Chester, after you steam-clean the car inside, remember to open the
pressure relief valves ...
Coming next issue
For the love of model trains
Coming in August
Making ultra-realistic foreground
trees
Improving a Santa Fe SD45 loco
Build an animated icing platform
Modeling a display loco scene
City of Miami, part 2
Traction layout design, a $500 con-
test honorable mention
...
and lots more!
More Derailments humor ...
Dumb questions asked of real-life excursion train operators ...
Q.
How do you steer the train?
A.
With those big iron wheels on the end of each car. The ones with
‘Superior Hand Brake Co.’ cast into them.
Q.
(With steam hissing from the engine’s every orifice) Is that a diesel?
A.
Yes. But thanks to new emissions reduction technology, the only ex-
haust gas is water vapor.
Q.
That has to be a fake steam loco!
A.
We can let you stick your head in the firebox if you’d like.
Q.
Then how do you make it sound
so real?
A.
It’s the Bose amplifiers we keep in the cab.
MRH-Jul 2013
