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The Steam Machine That Blew Up Crews And Moved Millions Of Trees

In 1900, logging the Appalachian mountains was a brutal, deadly business. The machines that made it possible were marvels of engineering—and absolute deathtraps. This is the story of the Climax locomotive, a geared steam engine designed to conquer impossible 11% grades, rough tracks, and freezing mountain hollows to strip millions of acres of old-growth forest. It is also the tragic story of Charles Darwin Scott, the self-taught lumberjack who invented the machine, proved it worked, and then had the patent stolen by his own brother-in-law. Discover how this unstoppable iron beast was engineered, why its fully sprung trucks made it superior to its famous rival (the Shay) on the worst terrain, and the horrifying reality of what happened to the men in the cab when the brakes faded or the boiler ran dry. Chapters: