Hi guys!
Got this from our friends next door at TRAINS
http://nilesdepot.railfan.net/wreck.html
Now that was a quick way to wash a couple of engines! Who says only sports cars can pull white knuckle stunts?!
Man, I hope the engineer and conductor were ok. Cool pictures, though. [8D]
-Brandon
No crew. According to the story, the engines were parked and crewless but the brakes didn’t hold, and they ran away to join the Navy.
Maybe Disney will do “A Geep for Nemo.”
This kinda reminds me of back in the 70’s. I work at GE, at that time I wired locomotives, two were being shipped overseas somewhere, I think they were U-30b’s. Well they were being loaded by crane unto a ship and something happened, Two units ended up in the bottom of the James river or from the smell when they were brought back to Erie the James Sewer. We had to strip them down and begin again. Every cable we removed water poured out of the ends as we worked. It stunk really bad. There was sludge from the bottom of the river everywhere in that thing. [}:)][}:)][}:)]
Now that would make a great dive. But not as good as the Aircraft Carrier they are about to sink in Pensacola.
Terry[8D][:D]
I bet they were nice and salty.[dinner]
“Prototype Locomotives converted into Submarines!”
I thought I was going to see a picture of an F7 with a propeller on the back![(-D]
Hmm, is that why they are called U-Boats???[:D][(-D][swg]
It must have been the first attempt at a Transoceanic Railroad.
Only they forgot the track
What carrier?
Cool pictures[8D][wow][oX)][(-D][(-D][oops]
You don’t see THAT eveyday, lol.
So who’s using this as there prototype?[swg]
That would qualify as a serious DOH! Imagine the gyu’s luck to catch that.
Ya know, back in the early years of WW2, alot of the submarines they were buidling got Fairbanks-Morse engines to power them. Of course, i am sure they took them out of the train first.[;)]
Reminds me of the shot of the submarine Seaview doing that emergency surface maneuver from the beginning of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Medina, that was my favorite show as a kid! I even had 2 models of the Seaview.
BTW: 3 years ago there were photos posted of a modeler who made a well detailed diorama of a GE U-Boat that was partially submerged in a river. The scene was that of a flooded plain that washed out the railroad line as well.
Antonio,I had Seaview toys too!! The flying sub, and a rubber band powered Seaview that would go across our pool!!! Problem was, clorine raised heck with the bands, so I was forever raiding my Dad’s desk for new ones!!
The pics are great, but its a shame they wern’t GE engines, cuz the first thing that popped in my head was the movie “Risky Business” , remember, after Tom Cruise dumped his Dads car in the lake, the service manager at the Porche dealer who walked out and asked, “OK, who ist da U-boat commander?”[(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D]
Maybe Terry is talking about the USS America? I believe it was already sunk, but I thought off of Norfolk.
Our Navy was conducting explosive tests to see just how hard it is to sink one of our carriers. Our enemy China is testing extremely fast cruise missiles (above and under surface) that would sink our warships. Russia is probably suppling Iran with the technology.
Greg
This would go along with the other thread “Soaking my Loco” Take a long time to get the paint off this way though.
Bob K.
The carrier that was mentioned is the Oriskany,which is the last of the Essex class carriers.It is going to be scuttled as a dive attraction off FL. in 215feet of water.Thats so that shallowest part of the ship will be 65feet,therefore not a hazard to nav.The former USS America was sunk off Norfork,Va as was mentioned.No pictures have surfaced of the sinking…there classified.
Train Freak beat me to the U Boat comment. Any body see that dive show on Discovery where they found the two 2-2-2 steamers on the bottom off the coast of NY? That was pretty erie seeing them sitting upright on the ocean floor.