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Not only did the early trains of the LIRR lack sufficient brakes to
allow for street running operation, but steam powered travel posed all
sorts of other hazards. These hazards include: boiler explosions,
fires, derailments, bridge collapses, etc. Even steamboats (such as the
Lexington) were sometimes destroyed by fire.
Harper's Weekly of Sept 23, 1865 summed it all up
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The Horrors of Steam Powered Travel (from Harper's
Weekly, 1865)
