Drowned excavator

Another train wreck, at the Corra Linn (as seen Wednesday morning), has distracted the C.P.R. from lifting the excavator.

The C.P.R. has yet to remove the wrecked flatcar from the bank or the excavator from the Lake, each resulting from the train wreck at Atbara on Friday, March 30 (also Wreck, stage one √ and Wreck, Sunday).

I suppose they can be forgiven for this tardiness as four days later they were distracted by yet another train wreck adjacent to the Corra Linn Dam, about 35 kilometres downstream from the first one.

So, the flatcar and the excavator remain where they fell. Apparently the highest point of the excavator is less than a meter below the water’s surface.

Today, I saw a small boat hovering about the position of the drowned excavator. It turned out to be manned by Bruce Morrison, who this evening offered me his pictures of it. I post two of them.

This is a view looking into the water from above the surface. I have enhanced the picture (using the same software applied to the image of the pictograph) so that the water’s surface almost seems to vanish. One can see the treads of the up-side-down equipment on the middle left and the boom extending across to the right.

Then Bruce lowered a camera into the water and took this picture showing the brand name.

When the C.P.R. gets around to lifting the excavator from the Lake, I hope to get some shots of the action.

The pictures of the drowned excavator were taken by Bruce Morrison and used with permission.