r/rustyrails

Photos from the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad’s abandoned Alamosa-Durango line, taken in the ghost town of Pagosa Junction, Colorado.

I should take the hint and retire myself. 😁

Abandoned bridge with railway tracks somewhere in Germany.

There's a subreddit for abandoned railways!? I've never hit join so fast.

Here's my contribution for now - the abandoned line in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. It's still fairly complete, and I've seen locals out using homebrew trolleys on some sections of it (no pics that I can find, sadly). There's a steam loco on display on a roundabout in Pereira, and another in one of the towns near Tuluá (Bugalagrande, maybe?) No pics of these either, sorry :(

Forgotten rails spotted in the now gentrified area of the Dublin docks. I truly hope it's not just my imagination seeing some rails around here!

The only remaining station from the original Tamsui railway line.

This was part of a railway to a munitions factory in Austria. The factory and the tracks were razed after WWII by the soviets. After 80 years you can still see were the tracks were.

Although abandoned shortly after the Chornobyl Disaster in April 1986, there have been plans to reopen the railway link to Slavutych where many of the current workers live. However, the line crosses Belarus territory so I don’t know the current status.

I was asked not to photograph the station buildings and there were unknown people milling about there. It was the only place at Chornobyl I was asked not to photograph, other than the eastern end of the power station offices.

I was told that the railway was not used for evacuation because the station was very close to an area of intense radiation and there was no other easy railway access point to the east before the river. There was (then) no road access to the east side of the river, apparently.

Visited in mid 2019. Apologies for the poor quality of the photos.

From its construction in the 1930s to the rise of diesel power in the early 1950s the concrete coaling tower of DeWitt Yard refueled the steam locomotives of the New York Central fleet.

The Strand, Gillingham