Image caption, Lisa Roger came from a long line of engineers, one of whom worked on a locomotive ... Leeds railway explosion. Lisa Roger travelled more than 5,000 miles from Arizona to West ...

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In his 2006 book “Railroads of San Antonio,” Hemphill calls the incident “the worst locomotive boiler explosion in the nation's history.” Early in the morning of March 18, 1912 ...

An explosion at a power plant in Arizona injured four firefighters. It happened Friday night just outside Phoenix. The Peoria firefighters were responding to a battery fire at the power substation.

It was five minutes 'til 9 a.m. and railroad employees were prepping the train to get the locomotive ... type of explosion that occurred was typical of what occurs when a boiler is heated with ...

An American descendant of a 19th Century railway worker has discovered a connection with a fatal Leeds railway explosion. Lisa Roger travelled more than 5,000 miles from Arizona to West Yorkshire ...