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    C&O boiler explosion details?

    That explosion was C&O T-1 #3020 outside Chillicothe, OH in May 1948. My great-grandfather was the fireman on that train. Quite an event, although I have had trouble finding much written about that accident. My grandfather has the original photos from 1948. He was 12 at the time and remembers it...
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