The engine was called Locomotion No. 1 was the first locomotive to make use of coupling rods to link together its driving wheels, reducing the chance of the wheels slipping on the iron rails.
Between 1892 and 1975, it was on static display at one of the platforms at Darlington Bank Top railway station.
All had been brought in to replace long term employees that had stopped working, walked off the job, or been fired. 1, George Stephenson and the world's first public railway", "Locomotion No.1, Stockton & Darlington Railway", http://www.spartacus-educational.com/RAlocomotion.htm, History of rail transport in Great Britain to 1830, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Locomotion_No._1&oldid=980715140, Locomotives of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, Preserved steam locomotives of Great Britain, Railway accidents and incidents in County Durham, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 28 September 2020, at 01:05. Jose E. Fuentes, a shop painter, was painting a star insignia on the side of the engine’s driving rod.
Everything appeared normal and No.704 sat idling on the track, partially out of the roundhouse. As No.704 was needed for a run that evening, the order had been to “warm ‘er up”. What caused the explosion of Locomotive No.
Particular attention will be paid to the social and political repercussions of the tragedy. In effect the city would have been qualifying railroad employees. In San Antonio, the victims were almost all workers, killed in what today would be termed an industrial accident.
The federally mandated 15-year inspection requires an almost complete tear down of the locomotive. The Great Locomotive Explosion:a socio-historical examination of a tragedy The following is an examination of the circumstances surrounding the great locomotive boiler explosion that occurred at the Southern Pacific Roundhouse in San Antonio, Texas. The engine was called Locomotion No. Cannon were fired in celebration.
The job knowledge of many of the new men particularly concerning the reporting of pressure problems, was questionable. [2] The boiler had a blastpipe in the chimney.
As the wave reached the far West side of the city, miles away, it still retained enough strength to rock buildings, giving the impression of a gas explosion or earthquake and causing people to flee their homes. For the first time in history a steam locomotive carried passengers on a public railway on this day, September 27, 1825.
On August 6, 2005, the Best Friend replica was lent by the City of Charleston to the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS), the current operator of the original SCRR line, for five years.