Camille Moore
Underwater Train Graveyard in New Jersey
If you know where to look, you’ll find loads of decommissioned and abandoned trains in New Jersey. The moss and plant-covered trains can be found in the abandoned train stations and garages in the city; however, the discovery of the underwater train graveyard was first made by Paul Hepler while he was mapping the ocean floor.
Hepler found an 1850s locomotive marked Planet Class 2-2-2 T at about 90 feet below the surface after his equipment detected the presence of metal in the area. Because there’s no official record of the train he found, no one knows why it got abandoned off the New Jersey coast.