Rail roads and their tracks.

[ArlyA]

Neat video about the Sherman hill near Laramie WY and why the UP railroad has moved the original line several times.

 

[Hay Dude]

Got a couple pics of East Penn Monday

 

[jjeff]

Anyone ever hear of the "redstar graveyard"? Saw a little bit of this place watching the TV tonight. Wonder if there's a train "graveyard" like that in the US?

Budapest's Abandoned Train Graveyard

The final rusting place for many precious artifacts of train history.

www.atlasobscura.com

 

[MossRoad]

Anyone ever hear of the "redstar graveyard"? Saw a little bit of this place watching the TV tonight. Wonder if there's a train "graveyard" like that in the US?

Budapest's Abandoned Train Graveyard

The final rusting place for many precious artifacts of train history.

www.atlasobscura.com

There are a lot of engine storage areas, and unused cars sitting on sidings, all over the country. But I haven't seen a graveyard. I'd guess most are recycled/scrapped if there're no parts of value here in the U.S.

 

[ArlyA]

Here is a fly over of the Silvis IL repair shop.

 

[MossRoad]

 

[ArlyA]

Track yard in Escanaba MI. They mention the Reserve mine and its were some engine had came from and where my father-in-law worked.

 

[Hay Dude]

Railroads seem to have the most waste of any industry I’ve ever seen. Thousands of miles of abandoned steel rails rotting away across the country, real estate under them just left abandoned, engines and rolling stock left to decay. Little attempt (at least that I see) to scrap anything, clean anything up, recycle.
It doesnt seem like other industries leave so much behind and unused?

 

[cqaigy2]

Railroads seem to have the most waste of any industry I’ve ever seen. Thousands of miles of abandoned steel rails rotting away across the country, real estate under them just left abandoned, engines and rolling stock left to decay. Little attempt (at least that I see) to scrap anything, clean anything up, recycle.
It doesnt seem like other industries leave so much behind and unused?

I've wondered about economics of that too.

 

[jjeff]

Railroads seem to have the most waste of any industry I’ve ever seen. Thousands of miles of abandoned steel rails rotting away across the country, real estate under them just left abandoned, engines and rolling stock left to decay. Little attempt (at least that I see) to scrap anything, clean anything up, recycle.
It doesnt seem like other industries leave so much behind and unused?

But rusty relics and old industrial sights always have and always will peak my interest.