There have been in the past; who knows when another will turn up?
A few years ago,a reservoir was drained for dam repair in the northern Sierra Nevada of California. A narrow gauge saddle tanker that very unexpectedly appeared on the bottom was brought to the shore, cosmetically restored, and placed on display in a protected place near the dam. Seems that when the contractors completed the dam and it started to fill, they dumped the engine into the forming lake because it was cheaper than hauling it out of that country.
One used to be on the bottom of the original Spicer reservoir, also in the Sierra Nevada. It could be seen through the clear water from a floating boat. The shoreline had all sorts of RR stuff on it, including a truck from some sort of RR car which we Boy Scouts pushed around in 1951. The dam later was raised substantially but I never heard whether or not the engine was rescued.
A standard gauge 2-8-0T was "lost" in the redwood country north of Eureka, CA, when a forest fire in 1945 burned out all the logging trestles. A few people knew where it was though, and when a new logging company built new roads into the area 17 years later, the engine was brought out by low boy truck. It has been restored and is used from time to time on the Mt. Rainier Scenic Ry. [#17].
I found a standard gauge 2-4-2T in remote redwood country in 1968, as I've previously posted here. It had been officially listed as "scrapped in 1941" and had been there since 1906. It's now in the Timber Heritage Ass'n. collection in Eureka, CA.
An engine was lost in the early 20th century in Greenwood Creek on California's redwood coast. I and two others went looking for it Someone had beaten us to it but not by much. All we found was a bulldozed ramp down into the creekbed where it had been pulled out by bulldozer and truck. The number plate later turned up in a regional museum but the locomotive has disappeared again.
Hart Corbett
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elminero67 Wrote:
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> Cmon,...there are no lost locomotives out there!
