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 Post subject: Re: Film crew producing TV show about sunken train
PostPosted: Fri May 03, 2024 10:18 pm 

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That's fair. To anyone on here who knows a bit bout steam, what kind of damage might we expect the 3512 to have suffered from landing upside down on the silt at the kind of speed she fell at? I'm curious about it. In the documentary, they mentioned the possibility of mapping out what was underneath the silt to be able to look at it better, so hopefully that becomes a reality so we can get a better idea of what's left of the engine underneath the mud.

I also wonder why the engine ended up upside down when all the other equipment is sitting upright. I thought it would make more sense for the locomotive to be upright but i guess not.


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 Post subject: Re: Film crew producing TV show about sunken train
PostPosted: Sat May 04, 2024 9:09 am 

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I think it's rolled since the first images were taken.

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PostPosted: Thu May 09, 2024 12:40 am 

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I just finished watching the documentary. The tender, the wood caboose, and the snowplow all look relatively undamaged, but the only thing that I could really identify as part of a locomotive, upside-down or otherwise, was a dome cover laying on its own in the silt. It doesn't look like it let go without a fight either. I couldn't really tell what that piece of twisted metal was that they got the ROV's umbilical cord tangled around. I was expecting to see locomotive wheels pointing skyward but there was no sign of them in the footage they showed. From the size of the impact crater they described, it sounds like she must have hit bottom pretty hard.

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