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<p>[quote user="J. Edgar"] i saw and photographed the dome and balloon stack in '88...the land is always underwater and always has been ....except during the drought we/the USA suffered in 1988... and as far as i know the land/swamp is owned by the city of howell.....granted the dome shape and stack i pictured LOOKED like a 19th century locomotive steamdome and stack....to this day during a dry spell there are pipes sprouting out of the water......the depot is now a museum and the former currator (in '88) is the person that gave me the oridginal info.....he had no other info as far as engine number/type...injuries...why the railroad never pulled it out......in a simular but different story my grandfather lost a 75' Ohio-Bucryus dragline crane in a swamp in 1966... he was draglining a peatbog when the machine started to sink the only thing showing was the top 20 of jib-boom...in 1975 a contractor tried to pull it out and the jib broke off[/quote]</p><p>That really sounds interesting. What is the name and location of that museum in Howell?</p>
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