Talk:Flying Dutchman (horse-powered locomotive)

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Did you know... that the Flying Dutchman (model pictured), a locomotive powered by a horse on a treadmill, could carry 12 passengers at speeds of around 12 miles per hour (19 km/h)?

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 06:31, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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A model of the Flying Dutchman

... that the Flying Dutchman locomotive, powered by a horse on a treadmill, could carry 12 passengers at speeds of around 12 miles per hour (19 km/h)? "carried 12 passengers at the rate of 12 miles an hour. It was propelled by one horse walking on the treadmill" from: Mitman, Carl W. (1922). United States National Museum Bulletin 119 - Catalogue of the Mechanical Engineering Collection in the Unites States National Museum. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 71.

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Created by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 07:01, 11 April 2021 (UTC).[reply]

New article is 3,353 characters long and nominated two days after its creation. No copyvios detected (AGF scanned refs which can't go through Dup detector). Article is well-sourced. Hook is 146 characters long (under 200 character max.) and is interesting. Ref 1 (verifying the hook) is a reliable source. QPQ done. Looks good to go! —Bloom6132 (talk) 01:05, 12 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]