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Offline mullet

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Cool Find
« on: April 19, 2012, 03:43:46 pm »
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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Offline Bevan R.

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Re: Cool Find
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2012, 03:47:39 pm »
Cool!!

Let us know when you fine Jimmy H. :laugh:
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« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2012, 03:52:45 pm »
That is super cool Eddie! I love that old stuff. So many stories are under that rust.
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Offline BearG

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« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2012, 03:53:08 pm »
That to cool.
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« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2012, 03:54:33 pm »
I agree, very cool Eddie. :)

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Re: Cool Find
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2012, 03:56:23 pm »
Wow...look @ all those rivets.  8) dpg
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Offline Adam

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Re: Cool Find
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2012, 03:57:42 pm »
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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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Cool Find
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2012, 03:59:10 pm »
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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Offline jonathan creason

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Re: Cool Find
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2012, 04:05:12 pm »
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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Re: Cool Find
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2012, 04:38:51 pm »
You scavenger Creason! .............Arent we all.
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Re: Cool Find
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2012, 05:00:35 pm »
Wow!
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Offline Mechslasher

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Re: Cool Find
« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2012, 05:04:53 pm »
proof that there is no telling what you may find in florida!
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Re: Cool Find
« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2012, 06:57:20 pm »
kinda looks like a cannon on steriods ;D
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Re: Cool Find
« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2012, 07:13:05 pm »
that's awesome Eddie!
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Re: Cool Find
« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2012, 09:05:19 pm »
 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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