Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: mullet on April 19, 2012, 03:43:46 pm
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The company I work for has a project we are working on , a large, lined, waste water storage pond. Last Friday the were excavating one of the walls when they hit something buried. Everybody was really suprised when they finally uncovered the object after a day and a half of digging. It turned out to be the remains of a Turn of the Century Steam Locomotive.
It's amazing it was buried in this old phos acid, fertilizer plant and nobody knew it.
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Cool!!
Let us know when you fine Jimmy H. :laugh:
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That is super cool Eddie! I love that old stuff. So many stories are under that rust.
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That to cool.
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I agree, very cool Eddie. :)
George
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Wow...look @ all those rivets. 8) dpg
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That is really neat! Does anyone have an idea how or when it was sunk? What are they planning to do with it?
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That is awesome. I hope they clean it up and leave it on site. Maybe near the entrance to the plant or something.
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Hey Eddie, if you can get any wrought off of it I'd love to do some horse trading for it.
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You scavenger Creason! .............Arent we all.
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Wow!
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proof that there is no telling what you may find in florida!
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kinda looks like a cannon on steriods ;D
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that's awesome Eddie!
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This is an old Chemical, Fertilizer Plant in Mulberry, Fl. This place has been here I think when Phosphate mining was in it's heyday. Steamships used to dock in this town around the turn of the century but now, since mining you couldn't get a canoe in this part of the river, the North Pronge of the Alifia River.
The State is cleaning this place up and the train from what I heard is State property. We've also heard talk about it going into a museum or painting it and sticking it in front of the Plant entrance.
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I am with PD, would love to know all the stories about, around or because of that old beast. very cool... how tall are the wheels?
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Eric, they are about six feet tall.
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Way cool Eddie. You sure have a knack for getting into sh.....stuff.
Lane
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I wonder if you buried a new one there how long it would last.Cool find indeed
Roger
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Thats pretty cool!!
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Call Texas, and bring Paul down to weld it back to good as new! All you need now is a hundred gallons of Rust Oleum, and a few cans of WD40, and a couple of wire brushes, and a good steam clean, and a ton of coal, and you are in business! Clean out the fire box, and see if there is a body in there. Not JH, but the poor engineer, or fireman, who was operating it when it went off the trestle! JH is under the Jersey turnpike, in a 55 gal drum! :o ;) They brought one up (old steam engine) in the in the intracoastal in Lake Worth, back in the late 70''s early 80's, that fell off the barge that was bringing it to Lake Worth, or the barge sunk, one or the other, I can't remember which, it was part of the "Celestial Rail way". Which included the cities of Jupiter, Mars, and some others. just Jupiter, is still there now. Pretty neat find. I need to go to work with you as your chronicler, and archiver! ;) heck I will even remove the hogs from the bumpers, of the vehicles! ;)
Wayne
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there used to be a pretty god sized river that ran right through the middle of Mulberry around the turn of the century. This whole area has been screwed up from the mining
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Not sure how I missed this! That is awesome
Tracy