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Ice Covered Steam Engine Thawing in a Roundhouse, 1885


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Ice Covered Steam Engine Thawing in a Roundhouse, 1885
Archives of Manitoba, Transportation, Railway, 18.

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January on the Canadian prairies often sustains temperatures of below 40 degrees. Steam engines often became completely covered in ice. Severe winter conditions could send a train off the rails.


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