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  • how the fuck do you get a train underwater?

  • Many times when a the scrap value is low { usually cast iron } out dated rail stock is dump off shore to creatre an artificial reef. Off the Matthan Beach peir whitch was the end on the RED LINE, THEY dump all the tram cars to creat a reef. I think this is what is going on, because the wheels look like they have been dumped while the barge was stationary { best not to be underway when operating a deck crain and shifting weight on the barge / ship / train ferry.

  • question, how the hell did the train go underwater?

  • OH MY GOD A WHEEL GRAB IT U CAN MAKE A FORTUNE :)

  • The wreck of the Arundo, off New Jersey has WW2 locomotives that toppled-over onto the sand. She was sunk by Nazi U-boats.

  • were ya scared underwater?

  • neto!

  • The US did ship railroad equipment including steam engines, to Europe in both World Wars. (Look up Pershing steam engines)

    These could have been lost due to storms or U-boats.

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  • umm im not saying this isnt a train wreck but to me it looks more like a decoration for your fish tank

  • If you can get some info you know currently on the ship and it's cargo, I can probably help, but so far, all I can say is the locomotice was a 4-8-2, and apperantly had about 5 train cars behind it.

  • Train stuff in the middle of the sea...very strange indeed.

  • They're Steam engine driving wheel, Definitely American stuff. The wheels are small so it's probably a 2-8-0 or larger, a freight engine

  • yes i have heard of a story about a ship that was sinking too fast to reach land in time, so the had a couple of trains aboard, so they thought of y keeping them and threw them over board, and the ship made it back to port.

  • I hear about the choo choo that hit the iceburg also . I think some guy was driving it to fast on pcp

  • looking at the pic, I notice something curious. At about 0:06 in the video, you see what looks to be a freight bogie, complete with axles and friction bearings. It also looks to be a leaf spring, meaning that it's probably part of the tender. at 0:11 you see the second bogie. Given the depth of the water, I'd wager that the train was lost over the side of a ship or ferry, and then subsequently whatever could be salvaged, was. (boilers and bogies being too heavy)

  • oh yeah, now i remember. that story about the choo choo train that struck an iceburg. ha-ha-ha.

  • wow.....i'd love to hear the story....

  • well....that happend before 1920.

  • I've herd of a similar story about two steam engines sunk in the Atlantic maybe near New Jersey I think.

  • The locomotive here was probably built in the early 1900's. The two steam locomotives you are thinking of were built ( and sank on the vessel delivering them ) in the early 1850's and both are sitting upright on the ocean floor, intact. There has been discussion of raising the locomotives, but I don't think anything has come of this so far.

  • @SR722 the two your thinking of (off the coast of Jersey) were pushed off the ship It did not sink.

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  • WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

  • Those looked like steam locomotive wheels!

  • yes they are - the boiler is on the reef as well

  • I do see a drive wheel, but no frame or running gear from a steamer, both importent parts that the drive wheels would be atatched too.

    These look like early friction bareing trucks from boxcars. I don't see the frame for a boxcar or any brake rigging or air lines, so chances are they were traveling alone as deck crago and there really is no "train" just train parts.

    a better inditification could be made if we saw the boiler.

  • sweet, where is that?

  • The remains are located off east Caicos in the Turks and caicos Islands

  • I'm assuming this is railroad equipment that fell off a ship, not actually a railroad derailment, in that case? Very interesting! :)

  • We are uncertain on how they came to be here. However what we assume is that a cargo ship ran aground at this point (probably over 100 years ago). To lighten the ship to refloat it some of the heavier cargo was dumped. The train boiler is on the reef but the wheels for the engine and the wheels and frames fo carriges are further away and appear to be lined up as they were packed on board the ship. We would eventually hope to uncover insurance documents that would give details of this loss

  • What will they do with it? Salvage it or Leave it?

  • At the moment there are no plans to do anything with it. To scientifically recover these items would cost a lot of money as they are located at a very isolated and dangerous spot, and once they are brought out of the water they will need several years of costly conservation. If we find out more information about the incident we will then decide pon the future of the items.

  • oh wow, that's neat!

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