Template:Did you know nominations/Flying Dutchman (horse-powered locomotive)
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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 06:31, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
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Flying Dutchman (horse-powered locomotive)
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.
Created by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 07:01, 11 April 2021 (UTC).
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)
