The new Barry?

Found this on Facebook....
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13560...doned-engines-and-carriages-are-left-to-rust/
Incredible pictures show a graveyard of abandoned trains left to rust in Bolivia
The mass graveyard sits just three kilometres outside of the southwest city of Uyuni and is a massive 4,000 feet above sea level. It is believed that among the ruins is the first train that ever entered Bolivia.
The cemetery has now become a tourist hotspot for holiday-makers visiting the city that used to be the train hub of Bolivia.

 

Now that is a linear scrapyard........now where could we put it?

Nick

 

Could make a few suggestions as to which British preservation site(s) it most resembles!

Paul H

 

It's quite well known, they have been there for years. Most if not all are well beyond repair. They include some of the excellent Kitson-Meyers of the Antofagasta Bolivia Railway (FCAB) and I think at least one of the same railway's Vulcan Foundry 4-8-2s plus various Beyer-Garratts.
http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/americas.htm#Bolivia
http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/trains/andes01.htm

 

I doubt very much that most are well beyond repair. However, the cost of rescue and restoration is likely to be uneconomic.

 

It depends how much you replace before it stops being a restoration.
They have been exposed in very salty conditions for many years and have many many missing parts.

 

This photo is from the yard in Uyuni in 1991 (the yard was in the town, not the "graveyard" out of town mentioned above)

 

Wasn't that featured in one of the Chris Tarrant railway journey's a while back?

 

I came across this one in the north-eastern US browsing on another site. Fascinating to see what memories of a by gone age still exist in less frequented corners of the world!

http://patperry.net/blog/entry/treasure-in-the-allagash-wilderness

 

There is a chap building some fantastic 3mm models of FCAB locos, featured in several recent editions of Mixed Traffic (3mm Soc journal).