Monday, December 11, 2006 at 11:20 am

Milk, It Does a Locomotive Good

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Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me: from the March 1938 issue of Modern Mechanix, a steam engine running on bricks of dried milk instead of coal. “The substitute fuel is said to have burned readily, providing as much heat as coal.”

Scan from Modern Mechanix

Does anyone know more about this? Via Make: Blog.

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