[modeleng] Undersea Ferroequinology

This from an acquaintance, many of you may know about these engines, but
it's new to me"

"I was watching the History Channel tonight and must say their current
Deep Sea Detectives episode really impressed me. You must catch this one
on their reruns. It is about the two steam engines discovered side by
side off of the coast of NJ. They are very, very rare 2-2-2 configs
confirmed as built in 1851 standing upright in the sand perfectly
parallel and 10' apart. Prior to this find, there was only one known
existing example of a Pioneer. But, the submerged locos are giants
compared to the prior one known example. There simply is no known
prototype. They were (are?) a previously unknown evolutionary branch in
locomotive engineering that died with their sinking. The film has
interviews on board with the man who found these great pieces, Captain
Paul Halpern. Mike and I have dove with him on that very dive boat many
times. I can pick out my dive station in the film. Truly a fascinating
film that brought together two great areas of interest: sub-marine
archaeology and live steam."

I found a related .pdf here:

www.njmt.org/docs/projects/SLP2007update.pdf

Bede
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