The Deep Sea Detectives on the History Channel have a documentary about the Rail Car carrier SS Milwaukee that sunk in 1929. If it is as good as the one they did on the two 2-2-2 locomotives sunk off the New Jersey cost it should be good. 10 PM tonight.
Yes, it was great. They even had footage of a old wood Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul and Pacific Box car still down there in original paint with all of the lettering still intact! They think that railroad cars fell out the car ferry durring the storm.
Phil
Interesting to see what was on the train car load of Nash Cars and bath tubs.
I looked on the up coming shows on the history channel and it does not have that show listed can you tell me what time it would be on in the central time zone. pleaseeeeee.Cause that sounds like a really good show.
Here in Kansas it was on last night at 9 central, and as previously stated above was a very interesting show.
Certainly seem to indict the Grand Trunk Railway as being a pretty cheap operation, in the matter of equipping its car ferries with radio or telegraphs, which it had not. And in the mattter of the cause of the sinking, the apparent cover up of the lack of hatches on the coaling drops from the main deck to the bunkers.
I thought overall it was highly interesting.
Sam
I can’t believe I missed it. [|(] [|(] [|(] I was going to watch it, but I got home just before it started and I forgot about it. I watched stupid “Medium” (which I loathe) with my wife. Didn’t even remember about it until the next morning. History Channel usually airs these things more than once. Does anyone know when it will be on again? I can’t find it on the site.
Ron