Old Steam Engine Exposed By Drought On The Gasconade.

[UnCivE]

This is leftover of a historic disaster near Gasconade, MO. I attached a link below that documents the accident. Pretty cool. . .

http://cprr.org/Muse...e_Disaster.html

[jeb]

Thanks. Interesting story.

[UnCivE]

Oh, also, this isn't my picture.

[Wayne SW/MO]

Very interesting, thanks.

Greasy B, if the bridge is "well over 100 years old" and still on the piers built on wood, I would say they did pretty good at the time. You can't fault the completed bridge because a temporary section collapsed. Sounds like like the higher ups were in too much of a hurry to brag.

[David Unnerstall]

This IS interesting.

[UnCivE]

Also, if you want to see where this thing is located... it's 200 ft upstream from the railroad bridge in Gasconade Missouri. A friend of mine, a railroad junkie extraordinaire had this comment

"

The square part is the firebox and the rounded part is the boiler. The opening in the end is where they would have loaded the wood or coal for the fire. The left side of it in the picture would have been the bottom of the locomotive. The frame and wheels are apparently gone now, probably swept down the river somewhere. At least that's how it looks to me."

[Jerry Rapp]

this was exposed in previous droughts. The Missouri River is still several feet above its historic lows, as is the Mississippi. There has been semi signifant rain north of us to keep the main stream rivers going. Just saying, this is not a historic find as it has been exposed before the internet.

[jdmidwest]

The Mississippi is still not near a record low. You can not walk to Tower Rock, there is still a stream of water flowing between the bank and the rock. A few years ago you could walk across on dry land.

[BredMan]

Thats awesome! Before this weather breaks there will be more things of this nature exposed in our streams and rivers.

[junkman]

I found it a great read for I like a little history once in a while. sad note is, I imagine the guy driving that very engine died in it.