Soda Locomotive
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Soda Locomotive
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Re: Soda Locomotive
#2"In a soda locomotive, the boiler was jacketed by a container loaded with several tons of caustic soda, or sodium hydroxide. Water was added to the caustic soda to start a violent exothermic reaction giving off enough heat to boil the water inside the boiler". Um, yeah I bet it did!