This came across my feed tonight. Has anyone been there?
I asked the AI as I couldn’t believe it.
True, a locomotive was transported across Elephant Butte Dam by cable. In 1915, during the construction of the dam, a narrow-gauge construction locomotive was indeed transported via cables strung across the dam. This was part of the massive infrastructure project to build the dam across the Rio Grande in New Mexico. The method used to move heavy equipment, like the locomotive, was necessary due to the challenges of the dam’s location and the need to bring machinery to various parts of the construction site. The feat is remembered as an example of the engineering ingenuity of the time.
