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[quote user="fifedog"]Why mess with local folklore?  Plus, it's a gravesite to boot. [2c][/quote] I tend to agree.  As I mentioned in post #7, I prefer leaving the engine alone versus recovering it for some other purpose.  As an alternative to leaving it alone, I would prefer to see it displayed where it is, in the context of its colorful saga.  But this would require the utmost in creative sensitivity to pull off successfully.  Whatever is done in the way of recovery or access, will probably heavily involve the city officials.  I am not confident that a committee would see the point of an on-site display, let alone do it right.  I seems to me that there are a number of risks and potential problems associated with tampering with the tunnel, its water content, the unstable soil, etc.  Frankly, I would be surprised in the city would take any risk associated with plans to recover the engine if they don't have to.It's just a guess, but I suspect that sometime in the future, the city will make a commitment to a large engineering project to de-water the tunnel, fill it, and stabilize the surrounding ground by proper drainage, possible soil correction, etc.  At this time, the engine will be removed in the course of the work, and given to a group of volunteers with some kind of display objective.  This might be be fifty years from now.
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