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 ...
The fresh water microbes don’t eat the wood like salt water microbes and other marine fauna.
Wooden ships and logs survive for a very long time in fresh waters.
Here in FL we have loggers that pull up virgin timber logs out of the rivers and creeks that were cut down over a hundred years ago. Very lucrative business. Regulated and licensed by the state, of course...............but as with anything of value there are ‘poachers’................
LOL!.....................
“It’s not-braking news.”
It’s remarks like that that get me steamed...
I recall seeing a documentary some years back about the Lk Superior operations...there are hundreds of thousands of such logs up there because of the logging ops that went on for so many decades. I’ve seen underwater pix (which I am looking for to post so far unsuccessfully) where these logs are piled up like 8 sets of pickup-stix toys.
There is apparently a locomotive buried in the sand of Village Creek in the bottoms between Arlington and Ft. Worth. A treasure hunting team a few years back had claimed to have found something huge buried where the old bridge was. That was the last I heard (20 years ago).
You beat me to it. Gitchigoomie. I just like saying that.
A shuttle barge named the “Incan Superior” used to move rail cars from Thunder Bay, Ontario down to Superior, Wisconsin two or three times a week. The barge saved money for shippers by reducing travel time for cars moving from Canada to the US.
We put fuel on the tug/barge with its cars precariously parked on deck and I was always surprised that Incan never dropped one of the cars into the big lake.
Wow, they discovered it right where everyone knew it was.
Alcohol is a preservative, after all.
Regards,
Yeah, I know eating junk food with all these preservatives will kill me. But think how long I’ll keep.
Scroll down about 1/4 page at this link to see a bass guitar that was made out of a 32,000 year-old cedar log pulled out of a sand quarry in Georgia.
http://www.spectorworld.com/wspector.htm
Sounds like a scene from a Clive Cussler novel The Chase.
Interesting that Wille has posted since Oct. 2010.
Guess he’s moved on down the line.
Willie got zotted.
He may have gotten a time out during his discussion with Jim but his home page
shows him to still be a member. Usually the homepage is gone if they are zotted.
http://www.freerepublic.com/~williegreen/
I fish a river with trees still standing down in it, probably 20' tall, look like toothpicks sticking up on fish finder. From 1940's. Can't imagine the lures down there. Thinking about getting a 12v underwater tether camera & display to peek at it.
Since it went off a cliff, possibly non-braking news?
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