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Old Train Thursday, Abandoned railways.
Bustednuckles
Documenting The Death Of America
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Don’t know why, but i find such things incredibly intriguing and extremely sad. All of the labor, time, money, and potential just decaying back into the earth; sigh.
Scarecrow
I’m with scarecrow. Seeing the willing loss of previous efforts of great men, by those now at the helm presently of dubious capabilities, is akin to a gut punch
How very sad to see.
Thanks for the fine shots. Lots of available scrap.
Same here. This was the RR of my youth. Never rode aboard, but saw it in action during the 1960’s–
https://amcrr.org/
I always collect pieces of coal around abandonded rail lines. You can usually find it all over the place.
What’s even sadder (and a bit frightening) is that this is a likely preview of everything around us in a couple of decades.
I’ve been reading “pockyclips” fiction my whole life. The first book I bought (in 1967) is still on my shelf: Daybreak 2250 AD by Andre Norton. In it, the protagonist is foraging into the dead city looking for salvage, and one of the most valuable items he finds are PENCILS! Pens are worthless; they don’t work anymore, but pencils are worth hoarding.
I am so not looking forward to the difficult times ahead. I’m rather fond of hot showers, and microwaving my coffee hot again in seconds.
Pencils indeed. At the 1:29 mark–
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_PPKGIxQ8o
23 – I bet there’s lots of fish under that bridge..
#21 Wonder if that was the Kinzua Bridge before it collapsed?
Sad indeed.
What was once the greatest infrastructure on the planet is now in ruins. Took a train from Philly to Baltimore 10-ish years ago & it was not very pleasant scenery. Hell, the assholes these days think tearing down a powerplant is a cause for celebration.
Beautiful and tragic all at the same time.
Had to look up bridge #1899 – that’s the year it was built, it’s bridge #114 in chester VT., and it’s been repaired.
https://www.engineersconstruction.com/2011/09/15/eci-repairs-gmrr-bridge-114-in-chester-vt/
I can understand some feeling of sadness at these images, I look on them more as lost monuments to the industrial age. If those locos hadn’t been abandoned, they’d have been scrapped.
If I had the bucks, I’d be happy to turn this set into a road trip.
I’d go on that guided tour. The one’s that really make me think are the trains abandoned in the middle of a bridge. Is that where the coal ran out? Was it a big F.U. to the owners? And the tunnels. Imagine working in them with nothing but hand tools and flickering oil lamps. The lessons such places could teach us if only we spoke the same language…
Scarecrow
Excellent set, sad though.
Ran across a couple of engines while exploring an abandoned mining operation. Got some cool souvenirs.
#6 is beautiful and sad to me. I live in Colorado and while exploring the great outdoor have occasionally found old rail lines, but never parts of the train. And, I have never seen such a stately and historic looking rail bridge. Does anyone know where it is?
Thanks for the abandoned rail tour.
Try using Google’s image search.
I love to see these old relics of a bygone time. I have a bunch of pics of old train stations in ghost towns here in Kansas. Plus, a lot of pics of the ghost towns themselves, obviously. This is probably the best set you have put on here in a long time. My opinion, of course….
Joe, send me the pics on the email at the bottom of the page and I will post them and attribute them to you. I was thinking of doing a Train Depot post. I do have my moments on the blog posts. Thank you!