Finding the 694
September 16, 2016 10:13 AM   Subscribe

There, visible on a video screen aboard their 24-foot boat, was the wreckage not of some long-lost schooner or ill-fated freighter, but rather a railroad locomotive. Canadian Pacific Railway Locomotive 694, to be exact, which crashed into the lake from the cliffs above in a violent collision of metal and rock before sunrise on the morning of June 10, 1910.
posted by Clinging to the Wreckage (4 comments total) 9 users marked this as a favorite
 
Oh no you didn't.
Clinging to the Wreckage.....

Really?
posted by mightshould at 10:26 AM on September 16, 2016 [5 favorites]


Oooooh, theeeeeey, built a locomotive
To round Superior Blue
And they thought they built a train
That the water wouldn't go through
But the Good Lord raised His Hand
Said 'That train won't stay on land!'
It was sad when the great train went down!

Oh it was sad, so sad
It was sad when the great train went down
To the bottom of the -- husbands and wives
Little children lost their lives
It was sad when the great train went down!

It sunk! Ker-plunk! What a lousy heap of junk!
posted by Capt. Renault at 10:47 AM on September 16, 2016 [3 favorites]


This is really cool. Thanks for the link.
posted by OrangeDisk at 2:46 PM on September 16, 2016


I like the image of the wheels. The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead.
posted by Oyéah at 5:23 PM on September 16, 2016 [1 favorite]


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