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Wow! That is just incredible! I mean, I'm not train expert nor mechanical engineer, yet at that, just understanding the steam pressure these boilers were under + the likely fatigue of the rivets in what were aged trains who had seen better days, my first thought is that those boilers stood an almost certain chance of exploding!Katy engineers assured Crush that his grand idea was safe, specifically that the boilers on the steam engines had been designed to resist ruptures and that, even in a very high-speed crash, they were unlikely to explode.
Again, just incredible. A more reasonable distance should have been more like 500 yards for photographers and 700 yards for the general public. Who in their right mind would get with 100 yards of two speeding steam locomotives crashing head on at high speed? What could go wrong?!Crush insisted on restricting the general public to a minimum of 200 yards (180 m) away from the track, but allowed members of the press to be within 100 yards.
We can only guess...Wow! That is just incredible! I mean, I'm not train expert nor mechanical engineer, yet at that, just understanding the steam pressure these boilers were under + the likely fatigue of the rivets in what were aged trains who had seen better days, my first thought is that those boilers stood an almost certain chance of exploding!
Where is the spectacle when you are light years away from the action?Again, just incredible. A more reasonable distance should have been more like 500 yards for photographers and 700 yards for the general public. Who in their right mind would get with 100 yards of two speeding steam locomotives crashing head on at high speed? What could go wrong?!
Engineers don't guess.We can only guess...
Yep. Like getting within 100 yards of exploding nitro. Good fun there.Where is the spectacle when you are light years away from the action?
Engineers don't guess.
Yep. Like getting within 100 yards of exploding nitro. Good fun there.
Just remember the tremendous pressure within a steam boiler is what drives these locomotives to climb mountains pulling 100 cars.
Those boilers amount to what is in effect a giant pipe bomb, and the bigger the pipe, the more damage they do.
Trains were sophisticated already at the time. If there was a considerable risk of the boilers to explode, Crush maybe wanted them to explode for a better spectacle. After all this was a PR stunt.
This thread is worthless without video.There is little I can add to this, it is all in here:
Crash at Crush - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Is it brilliant or mad?
