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It's a fascinating set of photos, but it's plagiarized spam. Much of the text is lifted, unattributed, from the Wikipedia entry for "boiler explosion" [0]. I do
by perihelions 4y ago
It's a fascinating set of photos, but it's plagiarized spam. Much of the text is lifted, unattributed, from the Wikipedia entry for "boiler explosion" [0]. I don't know what their primary image source was, but there's a lot of overlap with a blog from 2015 [1], the top Google result for "c&o t1 boiler explosion" [2]. That blog would make a good starting point for investigation, since it has descriptive image captions (and credits!)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiler_explosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiler_explosion
[1] https://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2015/11/boiler-explosion-of-c-t-1-3020-on-may.html https://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2015/11/boiler-explos... ("Boiler Explosion of C&O T-1 #3020 on May 1948"; Dennis DeBruler)
[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=c%26o%20t1%20boiler%20explosion https://www.google.com/search?q=c%26o%20t1%20boiler%20explos... (The Reddit results look helpful too)
- kzrdude 4y ago[1] would be a good replacement URL for this story. It also confirms what you'd fear - in many of these, the nearest crew were killed by the explosion.
- TylerE 4y agoAnd can we talk about how clickbaity the title is? Like, pressure vessel full of tubes explode… what would you expect to see but a bunch of bent tubes.
- etrautmann 4y agoI had no idea and was generally fascinated by the aesthetics of these boiler explosions, title aside.
- jefftk 4y agoI think some of this is that a lot of people don't know (and I think I didn't know until I first saw this set of photos years ago) that steam engine boilers were full of tubes.
- bombcar 4y agoSteam boilers were early internets - completely a series of tubes. But you’re right - many people think a steam engine is a hot water tank in its side.
- vmilner 4y agoThat was one of the innovations of Stephenson’s “Rocket” locomotive that won the famous Rainhill speed trials easily.(Increased surface area of pipes with hot gases in helps boil the water more efficiently.)
- cranekam 4y agoI consider myself quite technically minded and interested in the workings of machines. I had not considered what was inside a steam engine's boiler before, nor what one would look like after an explosion. The pictures are indeed bizarre, looking almost like entrails hanging out in many cases. I find them even a bit creepy. So for me, and likely most others, the title is not clickbaity and the content is not what one might expect.
- alehlopeh 4y agoDid the title change? Seems to me it describes what the article is about and nothing more. If this is clickbait then what isn’t clickbait?
- verisimi 4y agoThe site seems to have lots of eclectic collections of photos - I've enjoyed their curation.