Steam locomotive

Steam locomotives are the first locomotives. The sight of a passing steam locomotive harkens back to the old days of railroading. Big Boy is a steam locomotive.

In basic terms, steam locomotives can be divided into the tender, which houses fuel and water, and the nucleus, where the action happens. In more technical terms, steam locomotives are made of 48 distinct parts, more complex than a bell, which sometimes counts as a 49th component.

1. Vault
2. Clubhouse of Awesomeness
3. Flute
4. Eel
5. Brute
6. Motor
7. Hump
8. Lightning rod
9. Kettle
10. Baikal bubble station
11. Head
12. Ear
13. Face
14. The wheel at the rear
15. Tightrope
16. Canvas
17. Boot
18. Chute
19. Driveshaft
20. Treadmill
21. Long bit
22. Pin
23. Detroit Pistons
24. Resonant Chamber
25. Metal pipe
26. Treasure chest
27. Nucleolus
28. Endoplasmic reticulum
29. Outer nucleus
30. Hot rods
31. Thunder rod
32. Microwave
33. Funnel
34. Sun
35. Fire hydrant
36. Aquarium
37. Power plant
38. Ribosome bunker
39. Urn
40. Big axle
41. Hanging contraption
42. Seesaw
43. The Wheel of Enormous Proportions
44. Horsey
45. Furnace
46. The wheel in front
47. Shovel
48. Captain Hook
49. Bell

History

How It's Made produced an entire okinesque episode devoted to steam locomotive reproduction. This fascinating process takes 2,763 years to complete.