something interesting I found today

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3. Train Cemetery, Bolivia

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One of the major tourist attractions of southwestern Bolivia is an antique train cemetery. It is located 3 km (1.9 mi) outside Uyuni and is connected to it by the old trai

Search Google Images for “abandoned railway Bolivia” and you’ll get lots of results …

https://www.google.ca/search?q=railroad+cemetery+bolivia&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=S4XgUq-ZKoOs2gWpm4GICA&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg&biw=1440&bih=785

This is my favorite, use it as my desktop picture (I cropped the width to fit better here) …

Mark.

You really found out about it only today? I know about this cemetery already since 1996! Already even saw 2 documentaries about it on tv. As I am a HUGE fan of railways in the Andes, this is very interesting for me. If you wanna know some more info about it I can tell you: Uyuni is a small town located in the southern part of the Altiplano plateau. It´s on the railway mainline from La Paz to Argentina and also Chile, since the main railway route splits in Uyuni into one route southward towards the argentinian border and one route southwestward towards the chilean border and the chilean port of Antofagasta. All railways lines in Bolivia are meter gauge. But for being meter gauge, there were some pretty big steamers in service there: 4-8-2+2-8-4 Garrats from Beyer Peacock, 4-8-4 Northerns from Henschel and Alco, 4-8-2 Mountains from Hitachi and 2-10-2 Santa Fes from Baldwin just to name a few. All oil fired in this part of Bolivia where coal and wood is very rare. In contrary to that, the steamers used on the eastern system in Bolivias lowlands towards Brazil were all wood fired. Actually Bolivian railways have been in a good state and shape well into the 70s. Most steam locomotives from this cemetery also were in service until the late 70s. Bolivia nationalized its railway system in 1965 and privatized it in 1996. Since 1996, service has deteriorated very badly. Today, passenger service in Bolivia is almost completely gone, but Uyuni is still one of the very few towns where passenger trains are still running through. One of the probably most famous and interesting south american passenger trains was the El Panamericano or Pan American Express, which was an international train that connected two capitals together on a 4 days long trip: La Paz in Bolivia and Buenos Aires in Argentina. It was inaugurated in 1929 and the last run was in 1993. It featured first class coaches, sleepers and diners. All on meter gauge. Despite the prototype being meter gauge, I am currently in the process of modeling a 50s versio

Looks like Bolivia’s answer tot he Cadillac Ranch.

JohnBoy … I was in Bolivia about in about 1990 and saw this.

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Thanks for that DeLuxe,

I am grateful to you for your information and knowleddge.

I hope you complete that project soon as I for one would be most pleased to see your success with it.

Hope others enjoy it as well.

Johnboy out…

Here is 1 photo of a bolivian coach (60’ commuter coach by Rivarossi). The color around the windows is PRR Tuscan Red as it was a PRR car. Still needs decals, passengers and lighting.

I always find it a somewhat spooky sight whenever I see wrecks/hulks like those above. Doesn’t matter if it’s trains, planes, ships/boats, automobiles…there is just something about that “frozen in time” look to them. If they could only talk and tell their story…

Thanks for sharing.

Happy modeling to all!

Don.