Thursday, October 26, 2017

the March 1907 flood at the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot Wheeling, WV

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  1. The fire might have gone out in that locomotive.... ha ha ha

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  2. Unlike diesel locomotives, which have electric motors just inches above the rail head, steam locomotives could operate in water up to the bottom of the boiler.

    But this... Is a little high... There's even a boat to the left of the picture... And I bet the photographer was on a boat.

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