What are locomotives made of?
Locomotives take 9 things directly, among them steel, steel i-beam, ball bearing, electric motor, car engine and copper wire. Trace them back and you pass 62 made things on the way to 28 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
- Steelat Weld the underframe
- Steel I-beamat Weld the underframe
- Ball bearingat Build the bogies
- Electric motorat Build the bogies
- Car engineat Assemble the diesel engine
- Copper wireat Couple the generator
- Printed circuit boardat Wire the control system
- Paintat Paint and test on track
- Diesel fuelat Paint and test on track
From the ground: 28 raw materials
- Silica sand through car engine
- Water through paint
- Crude oil through diesel fuel
- Iron ore through steel, manganese
- Limestone through steel, quicklime
- Air through steel, argon
- Dolomite through steel, magnesium
- Manganese ore through steel, manganese
- Natural gas through steel, manganese
- Coal through car engine, aluminum
- Copper ore through printed circuit board, copper
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Sulfur through paint, pigment
- Quartz through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through steel, magnesium, metallurgical silicon
- Zinc ore through printed circuit board, solder, silver
- Rock salt through printed circuit board, epoxy, chlorine
- Bauxite through car engine, aluminum, alumina
- Corn through car engine, gasoline, ethanol
- Sugarcane through car engine, gasoline, ethanol
- Trona through printed circuit board, fiberglass, soda ash
- Tin ore through printed circuit board, solder, tin
- Lead ore through printed circuit board, solder, silver
- Silver ore through printed circuit board, solder, silver
- Soybeans through diesel fuel, biodiesel, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through diesel fuel, biodiesel, vegetable oil
- Clay through diesel fuel, biodiesel, vegetable oil
- Sugar beet through car engine, gasoline, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 53 things
Metals 15
Pig ironMagnesiumSteel scrapManganeseSteel wireSheet steelAluminumCopperSolderCokeZincAluminaTinLeadSilver
Chemicals and fuels 29
Oxygen gasQuicklimeArgonGasolineTitanium dioxidePigmentHydrogenBiodieselPropaneSulfuric acidPhenolPropyleneAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaPetroleum cokeNaphthaEthanolSoda ashCarbon blackAmmoniaMethanolCharcoalBenzeneEthyleneCarbon dioxideFormaldehydeHexaneToluene