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VE3WBZ > TRAINS 27.02.11 12:04l 49 Lines 2156 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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From: VE3WBZ@VA3BAL.#SCON.ON.CAN.NOAM
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TO: TRAINS @WW
FR: VE3WBZ
DT: Sunday, February 27th.,2011 @0429hrs EST <JPST>
Hello Toot eeee toot toots and anyone interested ....
From all the postings under this theme of trains@ww comes this one
just off the coast of Point Pleasant NJ, USA ... as first mentioned
by Warren KB2VXA. This isn't the only ones, as others have reported
and myself, of seeing locomotives of the past ...still there, untouched.
Warren via email, asked me for the site, as well the manufacturer, so
this morning. YES ...I know the time. Why I am up, I have not a clue
but I went to the site, to get the manufacturer's name for Warren and
ran into some other info on the site that didn't sink in, first time
around. I guess I was more interested in any pictures, as well
information of other sorts and this ...oh well it happens.
The site is http://njscuba.net/sites_locomotives.html ...if too lazy
and I also admit to this frame of mind, just email me and I will copy
and paste it back and your all set.
The Manufacturer's name is " Seth Wilmarth Union Works " located
in Boston, Mass,USA. They were in business from 1848 to 1855.
What is funny is, they might have had a licence to build from a
company in England, as at this site they say they are like an
American class of engine called the "Pioneer" BUT they aren't
instead very much so like the engines in England.
With some items missing from the engines, like meters etc, I wonder
if they were only partially assembled before shipment to ... ????
Then the final items like those missing from both, were installed
somewhere else.
As a side note, and I have never looked into it, and I have never
checked to see ..is locomotives here in Canada, that disappeared
in the mud or marshes where our early rails seemed to go, even
the dumiest thing I heard, was in winter, tracks would be laid
over marshes for trains to pass ... I guess also until they found
a route around the man bogs north of here. i will leave that
to some cannuckia RnR'er ... Meantime, I have kept this promise
to Warren and also shared it with everyone.
73 Pete VE3WBZ
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