Retired from the tracks , many honest-to-goodness trains recover themselves in glorious graveyards , sate with railroad car upon eat railroad car . Photos of these scrapyards allow us witness the magnificent decay of these mighty vehicle .
The last stop before the scrapyard, a railway ferry harbour built in the 1980s, somewhere in Germany
( viaEike Ramba )
Uyuni Train Cemetery, Bolivia
The trains have been molder there since the belated 1940s , when the local mining diligence collapsed part due to mineral depletion .
( viaRonan Crowley , Jimmy Harris 1 - 2–3,Lisa Weichel , Graham StylesandNathan Nelson )
A Graveyard in Belgium
( viaAndre Joosse / Urbex.nl )
Istvántelki Főműhely, an abandoned railway vehicle repair shop, Budapest, Hungary
( viaTibor Smidand Blackdog.photo )
Two locomotives lost in the 1850s found underwater in Long Branch, New Jersey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4IbZj5JS4
( viaThe ‘ Pioneer ’ : Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 , by John H. White , from the Project Gutenberg )
A Steam Train Graveyard in Central Havana, Cuba
( viaMania ’s Done )
Steam Locomotive Graveyards somewhere in the former DDR, now in Germany
Vic Berry’s Scrapyard with the iconic stacks of trains, Leicester, England (1973-1996)
( viaVic Berry ’s Scrapyard at Leicester )
A Steam Graveyard in Brandenburg, Germany
A fanatic collector find this place in the mid-2000s , put a fence around the place and set out to restore one of the machines .
Yanov Train Station in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Pripyat, Ukraine
( viaZerO81andMrEdPhoto / F4 )
The Healey Mills Marshalling Depot, Yorkshire, England
( viaUrban Outlaw )
Bonus: The Rozelle Tram Depot, Sydney, Australia
( viaWikimedia Commons / Adam J. W. C )
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