From the “what could possibly go wrong” file, I give you Seattle’s RL Boneshaker, due to begin digging in 2013, next to my place of work:
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/Viaduct/
Not directly steampunk, but since I know a lot of us have read Boneshaker by Cherie Priest, I thought there might be a bit of interest.
I will get no pleasure in doing right by you Junie should the gas get you.
You are a true friend, Jed.
Is there, like, a dead guy at the controls?
I will send you gas masks and plenty of ammo.
Hey! Jist dawned on me! Both Boneshaker and Homunculus have a dead guy at the controls of a steamy machine! Might’n’t it be, like, a Series theme, Miss Serafina?