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Why a steam locomotive?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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Steam was the first practical (useable, reliable) energy source to be used in self-propelled vehicles.

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Steam engines were invented before internal combustion engines (gasoline, diesel, etc.). Steam can be made by burning wood or coal, easily available before the days of refining crude oil into gasoline, etc.

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