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[quote user="mersenne6"]    While it hasn't had the play of the engines off the NJ coast (probably because their exact location isn't known) there are a number of 1850's era engines on the bottom of Lake Erie.  Several years ago John White wrote a short article for R&LHS about these engines - most are there as a result of being dumped overboard during storms on the lake.  The nice thing about these engines - assuming you could find them - is that they are "stored" in cold fresh water as opposed to salt water.[/quote]I have heard some inconclusive references to locomotives in the Great Lakes, but I don't beleive they were what you are referring to.  Were the 1850s era engines lost in one shipwreck or were they involved in different incidents?  I have read a lot about Great Lakes shipwrecks.  In addition to wrecks that have been documented and discovered, there are ones documented, but never found, and ones that have been found, but cannot be identified.  Some have not been found, but their location is generally known.  Some of the documented simply "went missing," so nobody has any idea what actually happened to them or where they are. Finding a lost locomotive as a kind of time capsule is something that has always appealed to me.
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