LOCOMOTIVE 508 MYSTERY

What we know for sure is that locomotive 508 was built by Manchester Locomotive Works Company in 1885.

 I got a package in the mail today from Carl Riff of Hamilton Ontario sharing a very interesting story with me.  The story of the Mulberry locomotive which i...

It wasn't warm but we had a great time on the river today doing another sonar survey but this time with the MS 1000 (same as model used on Oak Island).  This sonar replaced the sonar device we had back in 2004 and has a lot more features than the previous model.  Even...

Received some interesting pics from Daryl Demerchant this morning.  The following images are pretty close to what we are looking for in the Saint John River.  These may come in very handy during the sonar survey.

Above: Similar dimensions as locomotive 508...

Me and Marc Laforge from Gemtec went out on the Saint John River this morning to measure the thickness of the ice and layout points A,B, C and Hole #3 (see attached images).  Hole #3 is where we saw some interesting images last time we did a sonar survey on the ice b...

At work this summer, I introduced a very cool new way of viewing underwater bridge piers in zero visibility conditions.   Sonar techonolgy has come a long way since 2003 and they can now provide way better detailed images.  

A sonar survey of two b...

I was asked by the local high school to give a presentation on the search for locomotive 508. Had a great time and the students were very engaged.

Tried to rig up my gopro to some chimney rods today with the hopes of lowering it down to the river bottom and possibly get some underwater images.  I did a hole on the ice at Hole # 3 from the sonar survey but the visibility was really poor.  The chimney rods also pro...

Decided to try and do a snow sculpture of a train this year.  Turned out pretty good for an amateur.