Ray of sunshine posted:Back in the mid 1960's, flooded waters covered the rails of the CB&Q in Savannah Ill, if I remember correctly. The Q used their excursion engine, 2-8-2 4960, to pull both freight and passenger trains through the water. They could not use diesels because the water was too deep for the traction motors.
This was also the plot of a Donald Duck comic book. Uncle Scrooge's fancy new streamliner was trapped in a flash flood with the traction motors submerged, but Donald, driving an old steam engine slated for scrapping, pushed it free and saved the day...
Mitch