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an old drawing of a spinning machine with wheels and spokes on the front end

Today, the first locomotive. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. Children called the old steam locomotives "choo-choo trains." Choo-choo was the noise made by steam leaving the cylinders down by the wheels. If you've never seen it in real life, you've seen it in movies: A conductor shouts, "All aboard!," there's a great gush of steam around the wheels, and the…

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an old black and white photo of a train covered in wood planks with the words van overhouse collection written on it

In this image a steam train is blown completely in two. Boiler explosions were one of the most shocking examples of the destructive power of the train, and were a key talking point in the anti-railroad movement.

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