In a message dated 1/23/2007 3:51:09 PM Mountain Standard Time,
dwramsey@worldnet.att.net writes:
Jim, A train derailed outside of Elko, NV in 1957, it was carrying a load of
Chevys headed to Calif. Standard Union Pacific practice at the time was to
dig a trench alongside the tracks and the wreckage was buried. Local legend
says one of the double deck train cars was carrying a special order of 8 red
fuel injected convertibles. Anybody got a shovel? I could get you within a
mile of the wreck.
Crash
>From what I hear of the railroads, they probably collected on the insurance,
told the insurance company the cars were buried, and sold them elsewhere.
Clive Cussler wrote a non-fiction book a couple of years ago about looking
for wrecked ships and such. One story was where he went looking for a steam
locomotive supposedly washed way in a storm east of Denver. Turns out the
train was washed off the tracks, insurance was collected and they it was
secretly hauled in, refurbished and re-numbered.
Robert Houston
Texan in NM
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