In today’s video, we take a look at the engines of the FCAB and how they ended up rusting in the Desert
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https://blog.howlanders.com/en/bolivia/uyuni-train-cemetery/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyuni
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrocarril_de_Antofagasta_a_Bolivia
https://www.salardeuyuni.com/train-graveyard/#:~:text=Many%20imported%20trains%20from%20Britain,train%20cemetery%20we%20see%20today.
https://www.historyhit.com/locations/train-cemetery/
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Woe, Pharaohs curse be upon thee
I don’t mean to be critical but why do the titles repeatedly refer to locomotives as "trains". They aren’t quite the same term.
“They’ll be back guys, they’ll be back!”
“It’s been 10 years, man.”
“THEY’LL BE BACK! I KNOW IT!”
I think the idea of a museum would be pretty great
I heard a story once about stream engines left in a tunnel in the London underground
And when expanding the tube one of the drills when straight though the wall and into one of the engines
It's really sad that those trains are left there and excellent story my friend 3:46
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I should go there. I wonder if there is anything that can physically be salvaged or not, assuming it isn't a landmark that can't be touched now.
3:57 Maybe is the 2-6-2 or double engine?
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Ima be real…Seeing machines like locomotives and definitely ships being left abandoned are just haunting
Road vehicles not so much because….I dunno I guess the fact I see cars like every single day makes me immune. Trains and ships are rare for me to see
Running when parked.Thumbs up.
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coming home from work on a Friday to one of your videos is always a genuine pleasure
I Like Steam Engines Thay Are Awesome
This is fantastic research
This feels like something a Zelda game would do to hint at a more technologically advanced past
The first time I heard about these engines was in a book of steam traction around the world. The South American chapter wasn't lengthy and Bolivia was only one of the roughly three South American countries mentioned and the Uyuni Desert Graveyard engines were mentioned. I can provide a bit more on the engines there. Uyuni is said to have a total of 31 steam engines with 11 actually being in the graveyard with the rest either being dumped at, or around, the depot or as part of a display. Yes, there is an museum in Uyuni for some of these engines. The one that is in the best condition is a Hunslet 2-8-4T built in 1912 on La Ferrovia Street. A sister locomotive is inside the museum along with a 1954-built Vulcan 4-8-2. As for those engines that are not on display, the majority are 2-8-2s and 4-8-2+2-8-4s. There are three 4-8-4s, a single 4-6-2 and a single 2-10-2.
A sad end for these marvels of steam engineering
Desert Train sands where they fell out of demand,
Rusty and old
not many tales to be told
just left to their doom!
Oh hey this location is vistable in ghost recon wildlands
ghost recon wildlands players be like "i know this place"
This reminds me of a place i visited in Uzbekistan called Muynak/Moynaq. It was a former Aral Sea fishing village but as a result of the ecological disaster in the Aral sea the waterline is nearly 100 miles from the town. However the rusting skeletons of fishing boats still sit isolated in the now-desert.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands takes place in Bolivia and it has replicated the abandoned Steam Locomotive's fairly decently
if you play the video, Ghost Recon Wildlands, they're in the game and it's quite beautiful of the climate preserved them too.
Vultures can't leave anything alone.
these mountains of equipment brought from foreign lands
Are now stacked up in the desert being buried by the sand
Good video. It reminds me of a place in the rural Maine forests where a logging railroad closed up in the 1930's and abandoned two steam locomotives and some freight cars. For a long time their location was known pretty much only to hikers, but a trail and road have been built nearby in 2019. The rusty hulks now act as a kind of monument.
Sad and Wasteful!!
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They may be a somewhat sad sight, but had they not been left to rot, they probably would have been scrapped and disappeared forever. When I lived in New Zealand for a couüle of years I saw several situations where several vintage cars and trucks were melting back into the ground, way beyond restoration. This is when I realized that in my native Germany, all such sites have been cleared, and even the odd rough shaped vintage trucks you could see tucked away next to the railway track some 20 years ago are disappearing. I still hope they were old enough to be loved and restored when their time came. However, many probably are in a lovely little museum on the countryside, right next to the farm that my rabbit went to when I was a kid.
They’re not scrap, they just have a lovely patina!
How holes were dug under the driving wheels to get acces to the valuable bronze bearing bushes.