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[quote user="tomikawaTT"] Technically, the locomotives on the sea floor are 'arrested,' which I understand to mean that any salvage attempts will have to have the official sanction of the State of New Jersey and the Coast Guard, as well as the permission of the original discoverer(s).  Anyone who casually cruises up with a 100-ton seagoing crane and starts attempting to raise them without dotting the Is and crossing the Ts is likely to get a good look at the lands and grooves of an M2 machine gun (mounted on a USCG patrol boat.)Several comments were made about the fact that the locomotives are upright.  Take a quick look at the hydrodynamics.  Here we have an approximately cylindrical, airtight container, with a bunch of heavy machinery hanging off the bottom of it.  In addition, all of the fire tubes are located in the lower portion of the boiler's volume.  I would assume that they were loaded aboard ship with the boilers drained (to reduce weight, especially if they were being carried as deck cargo.)  So, the flotation is at the top, and the weight is at the bottom.  Unless the water was too shallow to allow it, a jettisoned steam locomotive would, of elegant necessity, arrive at the bottom in an upright position.Chuck (long ago Merchant Marine cadet)[/quote]tomikawaTT, thanks for that information.  Arresting them sounds like it is probably a good thing in the context of any responsible plan for their recovery and preservation.  Otherwise, their would likely be souvenir hunters picking them over in the meantime.  Your explanation of why they are standing upright seems logical.
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