Alexander D. Mitchell IV wrote:
As for lost parts elsewhere, you'd be AMAZED what can get lost in the dirt. I've pulled track parts and found what may be a car frame sticking out of the dirt of a dirt road in Arizona. And the man behind the former West Shore RR operations in Penna. actually purchased, on paper, what remained of the assets of the Bellefonte Central RR in central Pa. some years back, and found the entire smokebox front--not just the door, but the entire smokebox front plate--from one of the BCRR's ex-PRR steamers lying in the dirt behind the enginehouse in Coleville!
So, is it possible that these wheels have just been sitting in some scrap yard or back lot for 60 years? Heck, yeah. We're still "finding" whole trolley bodies, aren't we?
So, is it possible that these wheels have just been sitting in some scrap yard or back lot for 60 years? Heck, yeah. We're still "finding" whole trolley bodies, aren't we?
I have been told, but cannot confirm, that a bunch of steam locomotive parts are lying under a parking lot in Louisiana. Perhaps someone else in the area has heard about this and can add more to it.
Slightly OT; the same individual who photographed a pair of ploughing engines in the desert of Tonka, SW of Timbuctoo, in Mali; also photographed this graveyard of ploughing engine parts:
I'm sure many more parts graveyards like this will surface in the years to come; though I am afraid many will then go for scrap.