Train Wreck

During the 2006 season looking for the slave ship trouvadore off East Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands, the team investigated a shipwreck seen from the air in 2003. The wreck turned out to be a set of train wheels and a boiler which appear to have been dumped from a ship that had run aground. There is no evidence of a ship wreck. anyone with info about these wheels please contact me

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• slave
• ship
• turks
• and
• caicos
• archaeology

[lotusbandicoot]

Those looked like steam locomotive wheels!

[nigeltallguy]

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

[darkyoda]

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)

[420glass]

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

[thesideboobgodfather]

how the fuck do you get a train underwater?

[UtgaVonScheigle]

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.

[Ndizzyinthehizzy]

question, how the hell did the train go underwater?

[OMEGA87975]

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

[modelleg]

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

[wayfarinstranger1]

were ya scared underwater?

[nickiz1]

neto!

[HermanDerGerman]

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.

[DivineNucleus]

BABS, please send Collin Finances ASAP! Binary spirit sent to serve Collin, get Collin the FINANCES and get Collin his POWERS back NOW! --