A LOCOMOTIVE that sank into Canada’s Lake Superior 106 years ago has been rediscovered.
On June 10, 1910, Canadian Pacific Railway D10 4-6-0 No. 694, then just four years old, struck a rockslide, derailing the engine, tender, and two carriages, sending the train sliding down a 65ft embankment into Lake Superior, 45 miles east of Schreiber in Ontario.
Driver Frank Wheatley, fireman E Clark and brakeman J McMillan all died. McMillan jumped from the train in a vain bid to escape but his body was later found beside the tracks. The fireman’s body was never recovered.
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The 38-year-old driver Wheatley was buried in Thunder Bay beneath an elaborate gravestone carrying the logo of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and the story of the disaster passed into local legend.
Read more in Issue 220 of Heritage Railway
