I have heard rumors of a DL&W engine that supposedly has found a home at in the Delaware Water Gap? The story goes something like the engine was involved in a derailment in the the river and the Lackawanna found recovery infeasible?

Anybody if there is any truth to that or does it have all the veracity of a supermarket tabloid? (fun to talk about, but utterly devoid of fact)

I have heard that story too, don't know the whole truth. I seem to remember that its not the whole engine down there, just parts of it. My father also told me that while scuba diving in the 60's he saw a steam engine on the bottom of Lake Hopatcong in NJ. Not sure on that either, my dad has been known to exagerate.Anyone know the truth of either story?

What you see at the Water Gap are car wheels from a wreck about 10 years after the steam locomotive was wrecked. Now there is reported a Morris and Essex (DL&W) locomotive in a river near Newark.



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