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I cannot verify this claim, but when I started an inquiry into B6sb #5244, the Pennsy's last operating steam locomotive, I received a fantastic response from a fellow who who claims to have video of another loco and divers reports to back it up. Apparently, according to the claim, the switcher is in company of several tank locos and freight cars. If this B6sb does exist, it would be emminently recoverable and even restorable.
I know, we're always chasing dragons and rainbows, but should this be verifiable, it would be primary amongst recovery goals for this new year.

Richard;

I can only add to what you have learned that I was told the exact same thing by someone via e-mail several years ago. The quarry itself is easlier seen on the arial photographs on Terraserver.

Somewhere, I found a note that it was now on display at the quarry. I don't know if that is correct or not.

I too, would like to have a picture of the engines for my database. Another engine is also said to be sunk in a quarry in Nicholson, PA. Also still wondering what happened to the remaining Wanamie engine remains at the Wanamie mine site.

-James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a

Surviving World Steam Project

Consider the source of the information, and how much you paid for it.

The one point that raises a completely cynical skepticism to this purported information: Railfan & Railroad Magazine's editor emeritus, Jim Boyd, has been for years a proficient and noted deep-sea-diving enthusiast, as fluent with quarry diving and hard-hat diving as we are with steam locomotive valve gear, cabooses, etc. He has written columns on water-logged quarries, maintained for diving hobbyists, that included a write-up for R&R of a quarry in eastern Pennsylvania that sank an entire caboose as a "diving target" several years back.

You will have to convince me that a steam locomotive of ANY size from a major railroad, supposedly documented to exist, could have possibly escaped the attention and diving gloves of this most noted railfan reporter.

I believe the source has a history of pranks of this nature.

Have a brief word with Brian Wowak.

JAC