So there is truth to automobile's sunken inside boxcars in a lake!!!

I had to post this after the thread from about a month ago about old cars inside a sunken train. Today on the discovery channel I watched an episode about a sunken ferry boat on lake Michigan that was caught in a storm in 1929 called the Milwaukee that was carrying railroad boxcars full of cargo, when they dove down to investigate why the ship sank they also showed some of its cargo, it was carrying bathtubs in one boxcar and in the other boxcar it was carrying a bunch of brand new Nash automobile's I thought it was pretty cool and I am glad they were only Nash's instead of 32 ford's.

 

Paula ntxntric needs one of those for parts

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=201844

 

It would have been hard to sink 1932 fords... in 1929.

 

Lol

 

yeah.....I posted about it nefore...about te train cars full of 1929 Nash`s on a train ferry in Lake Michigan.

 

Can't fit too many autos in a box car. I heard that was the reason for sealed batteries so that car could be stacked vertically in box cars.

 

Read more about it here:

http://www.nordicdiver.com/carferry.milwaukee.htm

 

The Milwaukee itself is well do***ented but I've never seen any evidence of any automobile cargo. As you can see things don't deteriorate too quickly in Lake Michigan.

 

If you watch the show they show the boxcar with the Nash's in there and the even mention the cars that "were new when sank".

 

Okay. I'll have to check it out. All I've seen are stills.

 

the sealed battery was created by GM so it could stand Vegas on end inside of special box cars made just for shipping cars.the cars were strapped onto a rack that then was raised so the vega stood on it's nose.then the next one was driven in and it repeated to the other end of the RR car.They could ship a lot more cars than in a conventional boxcar and the cars were protected from debris thrown from overhead roads.I have pics in one of my books showing this quite clearly and a write up about it

 

I heard there was one some where out in lake erie to, full of old cars.

 

.....NEWS FLASH.....

In a related story,..... the promoters of "TULSARAMA" were upset and disheartened over the recent report of these 1929 Nash Automobiles being in better condition than there beloved 1957 Plymouth,... The Chairman for the Tulsarama extravaganza said "This is absolutely preposterous !,... they weren't even in a big space age protective plastic bag !",...... they vowed to have Boyd Coddington look into the matter.


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HA HA HA HA --------****!!!!! It's been a very rough night, BUT this did it for me....THANKS,
Fighting the car, kids, and wife, yet the HAMB "calms" me down..... Thank You, Ken

 

'51 Nashes in '29 were hard to come by too.

 

Does this **** have something to do with the Edmund Fitzgerald? Wanna kick Gordon Lightfoot's ***....

 

have any pictures that show the condition of the Nash's? Im interested in seeing how they'd look after all these years in a lake.

anybody up for a little scuba diving trip? That said, 90-120 ft 6 miles from shore would mean a lot of folks have been down there, treasure hunting, etc.

-scott noteboom

 

story goes.in the 30s.a ship from detroit left for buffalo loaded with cars from ford.went down in lake erie some where off fairport hbr. never found!!!!

 

i saw jimmy hoffa driving one of those fords.

 

We had one sink off Otago here, from memory with a bunch of T's on it, with the salt and the busy southern ocean whats left of em would be 1/2 way to sounth america by now.....