The DEADLIEST Locomotives in Railway History Explained in 57 Minutes

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This series looks at some of the most infamous steam locomotives ever built, not through nostalgia or performance charts, but through one question: how dangerous were they to the people who had to live with them?

From the Camelback, which placed crew members directly over exposed machinery, to the Triplex, a locomotive so overloaded with cylinders and moving parts that it barely functioned outside ideal conditions. From the Allegheny, a brute that pushed crews, infrastructure, and maintenance to the limit, to the Cab Forward, a radical solution born out of desperation, putting the crew ahead of the boiler just to survive mountain tunnels.

Even legends like the Big Boy weren’t immune. Powerful, reliable by comparison, but still capable of catastrophic failure when something went wrong.

What ties all of these machines together isn’t just size or power — it’s excess. Too much weight, too much force, too much complexity, or too much faith that iron could replace human limits.

These locomotives weren’t just machines. They were experiments. And in many cases, the people riding them paid the price.