Train scrapyard (cemetery) Uyuni Bolivia. Ghosts of the past.

Located 3km out of town, rusting steam trains lie amongst the dust and tumbleweed, it's a sombre sight. Ghostly images of a bygone age.

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• train
• uyuni
• bolivia
• steam
• trains
• engines
• wagons
• rail
• railway
• stock
• scrapyard
• cemetery
• ghost

[dorsetbruce]

Thanks for that. It's the only train scrapyard I'd heard about in Bolivia. It is in quite a remote place on the edge of Salar de Uyuni salt lake.

[cornhonky434343]

Eerie, somehow.

[dorsetbruce]

@cornhonky434343 Very eerie. The whole place is like walking into a ghost story.

[gwaithwyr]

Great. Very atmospheric. Someone I once spoke to briefly, learning of my interest in railways and particularly in Beyer-Garratt locomotives, showed me some photographs that he had taken of derelict Garratts in Bolivia. Maybe they were in this place? I could not identify any Garratts here, however.

[dorsetbruce]

@GregDelfeld As far as I am aware that was pretty much it when I was there. Perhaps they have added to since. I went all around the outskirts of Uyuni and all I came upon was desert/wasteground. Will have to check that out. Thanks.

[GregDelfeld]

@dorsetbruce Yeah, some of the locomotives are pretty rare. Are those the only trains? Because i looked on google earth and a bunch of different groups show up

[dorsetbruce]

@GregDelfeld Some could, but the logistics of transporting them from such a remote place in South America, plus the cost - before actually starting restoration - would be too much. But there again you never know, the world's getting smaller. I suppose it's been done in other parts of the world where it was once total non-starter.

[GregDelfeld]

@dorsetbruce I wonder if any of them could be fixed. I doubt it though because of their condition

[GregDelfeld]

@dorsetbruce I wonder if any of them could be saved. I'm guessing not because of their condition.

[dorsetbruce]

@GregDelfeld All mine. Taken two years ago after crossing Salar de Uyuni salt lake for 3 days and ending up in the town of Uyuni.