23Sep
You Spin Me Round
An abandoned locomotive roundhouse and railway turntable outside a small regional freight switching yard
The Trains
Choo choo, clickety-clack!
25May
Train-ing Day
I’m told the Germans ship all their derelict trains off to the East somewhere, out of sight and out of mind. They’re sure missing out on something.
05Aug
Frozen Vegetables
The Gare Frigorifique de Bercy was once a terminus for refrigerated cargo in the Eastern part of Paris. Now it’s closed off and abandoned.
High tech monorail experimentation, or rather what’s left of it, in the French countryside.
15Jun
Tanks For The Memories
The things you find when you poke around behind hedges…
04Jun
Midnight Express
Right off the bat, one of the more amusing bits of researching abandoned railway equipment in Europe was the concept of the universal access key. The Berne Key, also known as UCI key or carriage key (UK), was standardized …
Empty trains near Northern France.
05Mar
Container Port
Some nighttime fun in a river container port on the Rhine
26Jun
La Petite Ceinture
An afternoon walk on part of the abandoned railroad around Paris.
The Chemin de Fer de la Petite Ceinture was built in 1852 to supply the military fortresses around the city of Paris. It’s fairly easily accessible on foot, although …
14Jun
Train Graveyard
Rusting locomotives in the Bolivian altiplano.
