If they built it to look like a modern streamlined locomotive the public would ignore it, worse not even notice it. Hard to build a fan club that way.

The Steam Horse was used in a couple locations where heavy loads had to be pushed up an incline.
Brunton tried to get more customers but during a demonstration the boiler blew up recording the first death by boiler in rail history.

This is a shame, if I was climbing on it and fell I'd get a slap upside the head and told to wipe up the blood.
Now everybody and their lawyer is looking for that golden ticket.

That's to bad. I would love to climb on that engine.

Now if city kids want to climb on stuff, they need to join a climbing gym, pay $150 a month and have their parents sign hold harmless waivers.

This is what we've become.

When a corn car springs a leak...

A nice, neat mess.

Suspiciously neat, with nothing outside the rails. :eyebrow:

It's possible. Corn hauled in a hopper car that had one of the hatches underneath open just a little as the train is moving along would be a lot like a good dump truck driver spreading gravel.

Yeah, anything is possible but it looks more like a dirty carpet. :haha:

The headline is a little sharp, but:
http://www.citypages.com/restaurants...real/566781161

Years ago a semi with a bladder full of plywood glue sprung a leak on Hwy 101 north of San Francisco.
The trail of fast drying goo went from Marin County nearly to Humboldt and was easily visible for a year or more, an instant landmark.
I have always wondered about the scene when it got to its destination, empty.

Good find Jim.
Awhile back we had picture of a truckload of molten Aluminum that got dumped on a highway. That got everyone's attention. :lol:

I still have trouble with the idea of mobile molten aluminum.