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Steam Myth or fact? Passed this one on to the Discovery Channel...
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<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" height="100%" id="HB_Mail_Container"><tbody><tr width="100%" height="100%"><td id="HB_Focus_Element" width="100%" height="250" valign="top">I seriously doubt the ability of humans leaning on a rope or cable could move a steam locomotive at all, friction of the piston & valve gear would be a factor, besides the law of physics getting all that weight to just move an inch, I used to unload railroad boxcars, we could barely move them with a large truck, however once you got the thing moving it would slowly, very slowly roll quite a distance. I am sure that the picture with the young ladies was not shown from another side or end with the pinch bar (or 2) or the engineer gently notching out the engine, this was advertising you know. Maybe the mythbusters will figure it out. </td></tr><tr><td height="1" style="font-size: 1pt"></td></tr></tbody></table>
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