British Columbia
 Anderson Lake
Pacific Great Eastern 2-8-0 #56 hit a rock slide and fell into Anderson
Lake on August 12,
1944. #56 remains in Anderson Lake.
Kaslo
Lake Canadian Pacific 2-8-0 No. 3512 fell off a
barge in Slocan Lake on 31 December 1946. See 'The Shipwrecked Hogger', CRHA #256A of May 1973 which also
refers to page 83 of Bulletin
Number 83 of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society of Boston,
Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Seton Lake
Pacific Great Eastern 2-8-0 #53 hit a rock slide at Mile 117 on January
3, 1950, and
derailed into Seton Lake, killing the engineer and fireman. #53
remains in Seton Lake.
Saint John River Bridge see http://www.locomotive508.nb.ca/journal1.htm
Saint John River, Canadian
Pacific, Shogomoc Subdivision, mileage 82.7. RS18 8739 is still
buried in a washout near Bath, NB., which occurred on 1 April
1976. It was officially retired on 12 May 1976.
Ontario
Marlbank An industrial
locomotive is reputed to have fallen into the water and is buried up to
its stack in silt/clay. The stack has been seen from time to
time. If this is the case this will likely be an 0-4-0ST, No. 34 which
was used in the area in the 1890s. A picture of No. 34 can be
seen at:
http://www.ghosttownpix.com/ontario/img/marlimg.shtml
Meath There is a
locomotive buried up at what CP used to call Meath siding, where
highway 17 crosses the Chalk River Subdivision just east of Pembroke,
near the cropssing of the Mukrat River. When the CPR was being
built through the area, it was quite swampy, and I think still
is. One of the construction engines supposedly keeled over and
sank in the quicksand in the 1880's, and apparently is there to this
day, although probably well chewed up by time. (Bruce Chapman)
Mud Lake I am wondering about a rumoured sunken locomotive
in
or near Mud Lake. I've heard this tale several times, and many years
ago spoke to a diver who claimed to have seen the locomotive and
remains of one or two freight cars. What the diver
described to me sounded like a 4-4-0, but take this with
a very large grain of salt. He wasn't a railfan, just someone who
claimed to have found something interesting.The story comes in two flavours, one on the
O&Q near Mud Lake, and
one on the new line in Mud Lake. (Steve Hunter)
Sherkston David
Gilchrest has seen two quarry locomotives in 35 feet of water in the
Empire Limestone quarry at Sherkston, near Port Colbourne. The
quarry and its equipment was abandoned in 1910 and was later
flooded.
Port Arthur (Thunder Bay) An
industrial 0-4-0 shunter used in building the breakwater in Port Arthur
harbour was either scrapped by running it into the drink or it fell in.
This occurred about 1910. I know it is there because my father, who was
GM of Port Arthur Shipbuilding, sent a diver down to take a look. It
was there alright, and the brass whistle was recovered. I have it
somewhere among my railway bits. (David Page). This would be one
of the narrow gauge Chambers, McQuigge and McCaffrey locomotives listed
under Port Arthur in the Industrial Locomotive Listing at:
http://www.railways.incanada.net/industrials/Ontario.pdf
Thunder Bay (Gunflint Lake) There was a rumour
in Port Arthur that a Shay logging loco had fallen into Gunflint
Lake, about 50mi. SW of the Lakehead at some point in the 30s-40s.
Never confirmed, but I recall hearing someone say that they had seen
it. This is possibly the shay (Lima 2712 of 12/1913) now displayed at
Atikokan (David Page)
Quebec
St. Lawrence River if anybody would have a lead on the ship's log
from the steamship
Merlin from December 1881, I'd be most grateful... there's a certain
little PEIR Hunslet 4-4-0T on the bottom of the Gulf of St. Lawrence...
somewhere.. (Steve Hunter)
Thurso Parts of the first
locomotive owned by the Thurso and Nation Valley Railway may have been
dumped into Cairo Lake, mile 27.75 in 1936.
See http://www.railways.incanada.net/thurso/tnvrloco.htm#no.1
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