In 1873, a 50-ton locomotive launched from a trestle in Watkins Glen and plunged nearly 40 feet into Seneca Lake, where it spent more than a month underwater. Raised, repaired, and renamed Sam Patch after a famous American daredevil, the locomotive went on to crash through a station, jump into a canal, break a man’sContinue reading “The Weird Legend of Locomotive 13 aka Sam Patch”
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