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.