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Dive team discovers 106-year-old locomotive wreckage (VIDEO)

A discovery 106 years in the making has been made. On Friday a dive team from Duluth managed to find what is believed to be the wreck of locomotive 694.
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A discovery 106 years in the making has been made.

On Friday a dive team from Duluth managed to find what is believed to be the wreck of locomotive 694.

The train derailed near Schrieber and four of the units including the locomotive fell into Lake Superior.

 

Wreck of the Canadian Pacific Locomotive 694 from Todd Janquart on Vimeo.

 

Nipigon Mayor Richard Harvey is an avid diver and says that if the identity of the wreck is confirmed dive tourism may be a possibility for the area.

Harvey adds that the cold water preserves wrecks and raising it would be costly.

(CKPR Radio) 





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