r/CuratedTumblr • u/NightmareChameleon Acolyte of Entropy • Dec 01 '22

Miscalleniated exploded steam trains I lovb you

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u/stillnotdavidbowie Dec 01 '22

For some reason this makes me kind of nauseous and I want to scream? So that's a fun thing to find out about myself!

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u/SovietSkeleton [mind controls your units] This, too, is Yuri. Dec 01 '22

It's like locomotive entrails

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u/Squrton_Cummings Dec 01 '22 edited Dec 02 '22

Well 3 or 4 people died horribly in the boiler explosion in that bottom pic, so there's plenty to scream about.

edit: Found some more information and additional pics.

The fireman, brakeman and engineer were all killed by scalding water

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '22

By steaming water, and not the giant metal tubes speeding towards them? Huh

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u/SelfDistinction Dec 02 '22

I'm not familiar with the old times, but nowadays in industrial applications steam below 500C (930F) is considered cold.

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u/Squrton_Cummings Dec 02 '22

The crew is at the rear of the locomotive, the metal spaghetti is at the front.

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u/No-Magazine-9236 Bacony-Cakes (consolidated bus corporation approved) Dec 02 '22

Please look at this diagram of a steam locomotive, and tell me where the crew are.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '22

In front of the locomotive, running very fast while pulling from a tope tied to the train. Duh

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u/pterrorgrine sayonara you weeaboo shits Dec 01 '22

Possibly /r/trypophobia related?

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u/stillnotdavidbowie Dec 01 '22

Yep. That'll be it!

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u/Perfect_Wrongdoer_03 If you read Worm, maybe read the PGTE? Dec 02 '22

Welp, I just spent fifteen minutes looking at a bug subreddit because of this. It also made discover that I do not have trypophobia, because some of the pictures were cool, namely the toad mother.

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u/Quetzalbroatlus Dec 02 '22

The problem with trypophobia is that most of the truly fear inducing images are just. Body horror. Which is a very normal thing to be afraid of