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Bolivian train grave yard
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Bolivian train grave yard

"a train on the sand"

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fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: June 28, 2009 05:02PM

In southwest Bolivia lies a place where it looks as if all the country’s ailing old locomotives have rolled into the wilderness to chug their last chugs – or been struck dead on the spot at the hand of the evil stationmaster in the Earth’s furnace. This gigantic train graveyard – chock-full of the hollow husks and skeletal remains of long forsaken steam engines – is situated on the deserted outskirts of the small trading post of Uyuni, high in the Andean plane some 3,670 m above sea level.
FrostedApe Report This Comment
Date: June 28, 2009 05:52PM

I have to wonder why they weren't cut up for scrap? Seems wasteful to just drive them into the desert and let them rust.
Onyma Report This Comment
Date: June 28, 2009 06:23PM

Would be any classic locomotive lover's dream come true.
Seeker Report This Comment
Date: June 29, 2009 12:44PM

What do Bolivians know about recycling? I'm sure the soil is conterminated by waste oil too.