Is there really a locomotive down there?

[rainmaker]

Before I was interested in diving (okay, this story helped), I heard a story about a train that was washed off its tracks a long time ago. The way I heard it, the train was traveling near the bottom of a gorge on tracks running parallel to a river. A flash flood roared into the gorge, and the train was washed into the river, where it sank in a deep pool (50 ft.?). I believe it was somewhere in western NC.

Does anyone know if this is true? And if so, where is the divesite and the nearest road access?

 

[dwright]

If that story is true, the viz is probably nill...but I'd like to know if it's true as well.