Steam locomotive
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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.
- Vault
- Clubhouse of Awesomeness
- Flute
- Eel
- Brute
- Motor
- Hump
- Lightning rod
- Kettle
- Baikal bubble station
- Head
- Ear
- Face
- The wheel at the rear
- Tightrope
- Canvas
- Boot
- Chute
- Driveshaft
- Treadmill
- Long bit
- Pin
- Detroit Pistons
- Resonant Chamber
- Metal pipe
- Treasure chest
- Nucleolus
- Endoplasmic reticulum
- Outer nucleus
- Hot rods
- Thunder rod
- Microwave
- Funnel
- Sun
- Fire hydrant
- Aquarium
- Power plant
- Ribosome bunker
- Urn
- Big axle
- Hanging contraption
- Seesaw
- The Wheel of Enormous Proportions
- Horsey
- Furnace
- The wheel in front
- Shovel
- Captain Hook
History
How It's Made produced an entire okinesque episode devoted to steam locomotive reproduction. This fascinating process takes 2,763 years to complete.