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| Author: | Trolleyguy [ Wed Jul 08, 2015 9:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | OT: Spelunkers explore old iron mine at North Freedom WI |
Fascinating video of a SCUBA team going into a water-filled abandoned iron mine. This is near the Mid-Continent Railway Museum. Especially interesting are the remnants of the mine railroad, including a car left down there. (Sorry, no steam locos.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmDMD1C ... pp=desktop |
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| Author: | JimBoylan [ Wed Jul 08, 2015 10:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: OT: Spelunkers explore old iron mine at North Freedom WI |
There are movies of a different nearby flooded iron ore mine with the steam locomotive still inside. |
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| Author: | teqdiver [ Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: OT: Spelunkers explore old iron mine at North Freedom WI |
I actually know one of the divers that made that video, Tamara Thomsen. She owns Diversions Scuba, of Madison, Wisconsin. These are not spelunkers. Spelunkers are dry cavers. These people are practicing the art of cave diving, or in this case, the even more technical mine diving using a sophisticated breathing device called a rebreather. I am a cave diver and rebreather diver myself as well as a foamer and I enjoy when these topics come up, but have been wary since the supposed sunken locomotive in a quarry in Pennsylvania. Steam locomotive info only has one engine listed, but video of Sherkston Quarry in Ontario clearly shows two. Want underwater steam? Here you go. http://youtu.be/uDhwT4wRNaY Here's a photo of the engine sunk at Bonne Terre Mine, Missouri. https://www.google.com/search?q=picture ... RJx8QfM%3A |
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| Author: | dinwitty [ Thu Jul 09, 2015 2:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: OT: Spelunkers explore old iron mine at North Freedom WI |
underwater steam eh..., sure don't need a tender but sure need a water filter and active water processor, and well, maybe wet coal can still fire....instant steam, don't need a boiler just collect it around the fire...talk about effeciency...problem is, how do you light the match... okok back to your regularly sponsored thread... |
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