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I guess... When it happened, there were two men onboard.  At the time they couldn't attempt a rescue by vessel... I assume, engines were underpowered in 1918.  Check out the vessels they use to clear the ice from the intakes of the dam culverts today, pretty powerful and I think they have redundant power plants.  Anyway, 101 years they rescued the men to the Canadian side by cables and a boatswain's type chair.  Reading about it, the men had to spend a night on the shipwrecked scow till they squared away the cables, rescue line.  Wow... Pretty crazy rescue!

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     Folklore has it that when one of the men was rescued, his hair had turned white overnight.   Maybe tomorrow, barge goes to falls, in a few thousand years, falls goes to barge.

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2 hours ago, SinceThe70s said:

 

Thanks for the tip, found the article below. Looks like it's not in imminent danger of going over the falls.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/iron-scow-horseshoe-falls-1.5344845

 

 

It's highly unlikely to make it over the falls.  It will just break up and sink to the bottom of the upper river.   

 

It's really deteriorated in the past two years.   Here's the history of the scow:     http://www.niagarafrontier.com/scow.html

 

The iron scow is pictured here in its original resting position, as it had been for 101 years

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7 hours ago, Lurker said:

 

It's highly unlikely to make it over the falls.  It will just break up and sink to the bottom of the upper river.   

 

It's really deteriorated in the past two years.   Here's the history of the scow:     http://www.niagarafrontier.com/scow.html

 

The iron scow is pictured here in its original resting position, as it had been for 101 years

The link you provided is part of a website devoted to history in and around Niagara  Falls, all done by an amateur historian.  Truly a labour of love on his part.  He made weekly visits to the Niagara Tunnel Project, documenting the progress of that 10 kilometre tunnel as it was built in 2006-2013.  

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14 hours ago, Greybeard said:

     Folklore has it that when one of the men was rescued, his hair had turned white overnight.   Maybe tomorrow, barge goes to falls, in a few thousand years, falls goes to barge.

ocouple of things that struck me in the article posted above

1) I grew up in the Falls, never heard of a Pennsylvania  Street!

2) Those crazy mofo's went right back to work the next day on the river again..no freaking way could i do that!

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3 hours ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

The link you provided is part of a website devoted to history in and around Niagara  Falls, all done by an amateur historian.  Truly a labour of love on his part.  He made weekly visits to the Niagara Tunnel Project, documenting the progress of that 10 kilometre tunnel as it was built in 2006-2013.  

 

Yep.   Niagara Falls has such a fascinating history.     It's such a shame that the U.S. side has become a ****hole over the last few decades...

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