This is the one author Clive Cussler tried to find a few years ago. Appearently it wasn't there, but interesting just the same.

http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm146223.html
ryarger@rypn.org

> This is the one author Clive Cussler tried
> to find a few years ago. Appearently it
> wasn't there, but interesting just the same.

Bob, He contacted me about a Colorado River Steamboat a few years ago also. I gues there is not enough salt water out there to keep him busy!

Ted Miles

ted_miles@nps.gov

> Bob, He contacted me about a Colorado River
> Steamboat a few years ago also. I gues there
> is not enough salt water out there to keep
> him busy!

> Ted Miles

sometimes the river has moved over a little ???


arabia
lamontdc@adelphia.net

> sometimes the river has moved over a little
> ???

Along those same lines, Texas A&M university has been excavating the Red River steamer "New York"(I think). what they have found so far is that it is a converted coastal sailing ship dating to the 1820's and having had machinery added. It sank near Ft Towson, Oklahoma sometime around 1838 or a little later, making it, I believe, the oldest extant steamboat. The pictures I have seen seem to indicate a remarkable state of preservation, the machinery being especially interesting.

This didn't have a thing to do with trains, but it indicated what may be found if any lost locomotives are ever excavated.

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