Back before my time, the Atlantic Coast Lumber Co. used direct loaded trains to log the coastal swamps here. There is a steam engine that derailed sometime in the 20's or 30's on land that now belongs to my brother. It sank above the boiler in the mud and they were unable to recover it. When my grandfather first showed it to me, about 35 yrs. ago, you could still recognize the cab and funnel. A few years ago my brother and I made the hike, (3 miles of swamp),:tong to find it. All we found was a pile of rust and scrap. If I ever get rich, I might take a trackhoe in and see what remains under the ground.
In a related story, my father was working for International Paper in the early '50s running a D4 w/ a fire plow. He got a paniced call to go to Kilsock Bay,(a Carolina Bay, a unique and treacherous geological phenomenon, not a body of water). It is about 10 miles from where the locomotive is. A crew was using 2 brand new D9s to bed land for replanting, and one sank. They tried to pull it out with the other 9 and it got stuck. When my father got there he could put a stick against the first tractor and tell that it was slowly continuing to sink. When they got several winch-equipped fire tractors in, they were able to recover the second D9, but, even after bringing in several more large dozers, 2 draglines, and alot more equipment, keeping the operators onsite 24hrs/day for 3 days, they never recovered that month old D9. It slowly sank completely beneath the surface.