Who said heavy rains don't bring happyness

I stumbled upon these 2 photos taken in 2007 durning some flooding new stockton, mn. The railroad placed there hear to keep the hillside from washing over the tracks and then coverd them up with fill until they were recently un-earthed. Preatty neat. I have no idea if they are still there today.

 

now those should be entered in the 2009 calendar thread.

 

It's crazy how intact they are considering how long they've been buried.

Should check for '32's, someone would buy it even having been buried for 50 years. A lot of those firewalls don't even look rusty.

Great pics, thanks for sharing.

 

Oh Lord! My heart! And, this is only one of many like it through out the country. Used as banking material and so on. Sigh.

 

wow.........cool

 

That is incredible. The first thing that pops into my mind is "I wanna save one" If only a couple could be dug out just for the hell of it.

 

If they were buried right after being placed there they may be preserved. You may be supprised how nice of shape they are in.

 

Same thing happened around railroad rights-of-way and creek/river banks throughout the nation. The key to preservation is drainage. Looks like this "hillside" is primarily stones of varying sizes which allows the water to drain away very nicely.

 

That is to cool

 

Looks like it would be a HUGE undertaking to get one of those out. The cabs seem to be full of large stones. I'm sure a determined HAMB'r could figure out a way to do it though

 

No shit, dude. That's awesome!

~Jason

 

It was also done here in Australia, river banks etc,,, bodys filled with rocks,
kept the rocks together, stopped them from washing away. happy digging

 

Same thing was done out here, same large field stones. A pal got permission from the RR and the RR pulled a 32 Tudor out for him with a service truck. After 9/11 messing with this stuff became a HUGE Federal offense. Theft is the #1 problem RR's are facing. Since my family is in trucking and we deal some with the RR's I have first hand knowledge of this fact.

 

I want the one with the tree growing thru it
Cool pic
Skot

 

DIG DIG DIG DIG one out or even two hell I am greedy call me I will help dig all of them out .

 

read my reply^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

Eye mates, there's hidden treasure along the train tracks and a few mates too. Bring shovel will dig for gas money!

CRUISER

 

Railroad tracks across th US will be dug up by Hambers looking for old metal. We're going to jail!

 

I think the 2 with the trees growing out of their rear windows are 34 Fords.

 

man, that hurts my heart!

 

funny the car dissapeared a couple days before someone else was goin out to get em, and i guarantee there was no permission given. someone just had a family member that works for the railroad.

 

cool stuff out there, thats for sure

 

the railroad usually doesn't mess around. damm tweakers were stealing the signal ground wires and getting zapped by high voltage causing arms to be burned off and if they lived the railroad was filing charges. they got money and power.

 

Wow! I need to find me a ditch full of those!

 

Damn railroads.

 

jim sibley can fix them
tk

 

Wall of Shame

 

Count me out of digging one up.I got a bad back.LOL

 

thats a cool picture man, you should go see if they are still there, and take more pics