CPR Loco Found in Lake Superior

[Bruce Kelly]

Somebody cue that Gordon Lightfoot ballad.

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/08/cpr_694_discovery_lake_superio.html

 

[AgentKid]

Bruce Kelly

Somebody cue that Gordon Lightfoot ballad.

I was humming to the ballad within seconds of starting to read the article that another forum had linked up to on the find, in the Duluth newspaper.

Bruce

 

[54light15]

I've been to that part of Ontario, there's a big CPR yard in Schreiber. There was a small Ford dealer there selling some small Focus sedans. They had knobby tires that would look good on a Jeep and engine block heaters which will give you an idea of what the winters are like. Beautiful country, tall pine trees, solid granite rocks, crystal clear lakes. North of there toward Red Lake are drive-in fishing camps where you get on a float plane and go further north. There's an air line out of Thunder Bay that serves native communities and they still fly DC-3s.

[NDG]

 

There are several locomotives in water, salt and fresh in the Great White North. Cold weather rules along Superior in Winter, and wind. 40 Below common, with wind, it has to be experienced. Air trouble galore on trains, pull aparts and so on.

FWIW. There was a tail end collision on the Inco Rwy. a few years back when it was still electrified.  CPR crew pushed ore cars out past Yard Limits onto Inco Trackage.

Cars NOT on Air.

Sunday Night.

An Extra Inco train arrived w/empties and hit ore cars hanging out, destroying Electric Locomotive, killing Trainman outright, Engineer cast out into snow w/broken leg. One ore car derailed, and the impact uncoupled same from other cars in it's consist.

CPR crew pulled out and added cars to their train, minus one, Cut in the Air, Pumped Up, and left.

The Extra was not noticed missing until well overdue back at the Smelter Monday morning.

It's Engineer froze to death in the snow.


Aeons ago, c. 1914, as in the song, several lakers were lost in a storm in November.


Bell mount @ time 4:44 in video.


Thank You.

[NDG]

 

This list shows several more 'Sunk'

http://www.steamlocomotive.com/lists/searchdb.php?country=CAN&state=BC

Allegedly a Remote Sub has recently visited CP 3512 down 600+ feet in Slocan Lake.

http://www.oldphotos.ca/archivos/displayLargeImage.php?tableName=photos&imageID=443638027

Barge took on water and listed. Crew jumped to adjacent tug. At least Engine and a Plow went in?

 

1970s view.

Similar steel 2-track barge and tug, Slocan Lake @ Rosebery.

http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd410/stinksandbangs/Layout%20Design/CPR-SlocanLake_zpsb867db63.jpg

Looking South. Site of CP 3512 would be in distance.

 

Winch on deck of barge by tug was used to cable-load/unload cars w/o locomotive. Cars coasted/left in Dip @ slipway.

Barge Slip @ Silverton Locomotives Prohibited.

Also.

http://www.railways.incanada.net/circle/Sunken.html

Thank You.

[Penny Trains]

There's supposed to be a lot of them off the coast of South America.

[Firelock76]

In 1861 a locomotive of the Hackensack and New York Railroad went through an open drawbridge over the Hackensack River in New Jersey and went to the bottom.  There were injuries but luckily no fatalities.  There's no record of the locomotive ever being recovered, but after 155 years in a salt marsh river I can imagine what kind of condition it's in.

Unless there's been a major change in the right of way since then this would be at the location of the former Erie, now New Jersey Transit HX Drawbridge and Tower.