Posted on 10/06/2016 6:49:42 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
A locomotive that derailed and plunged from a cliff into Lake Superior has been discovered after 106 years.
Canadian Pacific Railway Locomotive No. 694 was discovered by shipwreck hunters in July, about 230 feet deep in the waters of Lake Superior, near Marathon, Ontario.
The wreck claimed three lives on the morning of June 10, 1910.
(Excerpt) Read more at clickondetroit.com ...
Someone ping Willie Green, please.
Not exactly breaking news, but braking news, maybe.
LOL.
There are companies that raise logs from the bottom of Lake Superior. And, they are piled up down there like toothpicks, in vast quantities. The bottom is apparently anerobic, so the logs do not rot. The quality of the wood is so good, though, they fetch 1/4 million+ a log for the finest straight grain spruce.
What a horrible way to die.
Cool! Or since it’s Lake Superior: Cold!
It’s not-braking news.
Andrea Doria could write a song about it. Didn’t she write “More More More”?
Probably had Locomotive Breath.
Interesting.
Paging Dirk Pitt. :)
Great post!
Welcome break from political bs.
I remember reading of companies who mined submerged logs from swamps years ago. The quality of the wood was still good after all these years.
http://www.dennistwpmuseum.org/pdfdoc/cedarmining.pdf
A fine tree, the spruce.
I think up until now, no one had any question of where it was. It’s not like it was going to float away.
This old engine, makes it on time
Leaves Central Station at a quarter to nine
Hits River Junction at seventeen to
At a quarter to ten you know it’s travelin’ again
Lake Superior is over 1000 ft. deep in places.
I doubt at the bottom it’s more than a couple of ticks above freezing.
I once knew a guy from the U.P of Michigan whose drunken uncle stumbled off a town pier and was presumed drowned in Lake Superior. His perfectly preserved body washed up on a beach 36 miles away.....seven years later!
There are two videos at link, both really interesting. I love the background music being played in the first video. Eerily beautiful, and suits the subject matter.
Yup.
lame article: http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/underwater-logging-zmaz98onzraw
Probably my estimate of ultimate value is on the high end and of course not every log is top quality, but many of these are highly prized logs, to some. Ultra-tight grain lines, that kind of thing.
Reminds me of an old joke:
Dudes go out fishing on opening day, very early in the morning. One of them goes to take a leak off the back of the boat and falls in.
Another guy jumps over to save him. He comes up after a while and throws the man in the boat and starts doing mouth-to-mouth.
He recoils back and says “Dang, Joe’s breath is seriously nasty!”. Another man in the boat says “I don’t remember Joe wearing a snowmobile suit”.
Ba-dum-dum
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