
Vehicles · Built from a recipe
Steam Train
D5 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 617.8 Hz.
A steam locomotive burns coal or wood to boil water in a long boiler.
- Shelf
- Vehicles
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC0
Its note
Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 617.8 Hz, 88 cents sharp of D5, the nearest tine on the comb. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

- 1618 Hz
- 2779 Hz
- 3799 Hz
- 4975 Hz
- 51105 Hz
- 61126 Hz
- 71133 Hz
- 81215 Hz
- 91326 Hz
- 101381 Hz
- 111395 Hz
- 121429 Hz
- 131493 Hz
- 141533 Hz
- 151590 Hz
- 161668 Hz
How to play
Tap it to blow the whistle.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blow the whistle | Tap | ||
| Whistle | Button | ||
| Color | Color | #1f6b43 |
About it
A steam locomotive burns coal or wood to boil water in a long boiler. The steam pushes pistons back and forth, and rods turn that push into the turning of the big driving wheels. The first steam locomotive to pull a train on rails ran in Wales in 1804, and for more than a hundred years steam trains carried people and goods around the world.
The engine puffs smoke from its chimney. Tap it to blow the whistle: a jet of white steam shoots up from the whistle and a big cloud billows from the chimney. Pick the color of the engine in the Splash tab.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 57,909 at Low, and up to 760,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| d_s478_underbridge.wav (steam-train-chuff.mp3) | relwin | CC0 1.0 |



