ATDTDA (1): naphtha engines

[Ya Sam]

>"[...] ships powered by guncotton reciprocators and naphtha engines [...]" 
>(p. 27).
>

Of course the first thing popping up in my mind is:

"...and the smells begun of coal from days far to the past, smells of 
naphtha winters, of Sundays when no traffic came through, of the coral-like 
and mysteriously vital growth, around the blind curves and out the lonely 
spurs, a sour smell of rolling-stock absence, of maturing rust, developing 
through those emptying days brilliant and deep, especially at dawn, with 
blue shadows to seal its passage, to try to bring events to Absolute Zero . 
. . "

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