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Some sites contain numerous trains that have been abandoned. In the United States, just outside Watervliet, New York, there is the main line for the Delaware and Hudson Railway. Alongside this railway line is a disused stretch of track which is home to rusted locomotives, passenger cars, and freight cars. Istvántelki Főműhely, formerly one of the most important railway repair workshops in Hungary, now lays disused with old rolling stock on site. Many of them were taken there to be repaired before being exhibited in the Hungarian Railway History Park in Budapest but never made it. One particularly sizable site is the Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, Wales, from which 213 of 297 locomotives were rescued by the nascent railway preservation movement. In Russia, there is one in Shumkovo.[http://www.anews.com.tr/webtv/world/shumkovos-soviet-railway-cemetery Shumkovo's Soviet railway cemetery] In Tangshan in north China there are rusting locomotives on the sidings of now shut-down coal mines. A few have also been moved and exhibited in a Coal Mining Park and Railway museum.See Youtube slideshow by Chinarail1 in external links below

Trains can be abandoned in a location because it is deemed too difficult to move them. Two large steam locomotives of the Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad, for example, were left in a woodland area in the U.S. state of Maine after the end of a local logging operation because it was not practical to move them from such a remote location.

{{wide image|Uyuni Décembre 2007 - Cimetière de Trains 1.jpg|1000px|"Cementerio de Trenes" (train cemetery) in Bolivia}}

Train graveyards can be of interest to railfans, urban explorers, and other tourists. The "Cementerio de Trenes" ("train cemetery") near Uyuni, Bolivia, serves as a tourist attraction with trains dating back to the 19th century left to rust in the extensive salt flats of the Salar de Uyuni. The site contains a train alleged to have been robbed by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and has been called "one of the most striking and haunting sights in the deserts of southwest Bolivia".

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|title = Cementerio de Trenes

|publisher = Lonely Planet

|date = 18 September 2014

|url = https://www.lonelyplanet.com/bolivia/uyuni/attractions/cementerio-de-trenes/a/poi-sig/467252/363148

|accessdate = 1 April 2018

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|archivedate = 30 April 2018

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{{cite web

|title = Google Maps satellite photos of train 'graveyard' in Bolivia

|surname = Hough

|first = Andrew

|work = The Telegraph

|date = 25 February 2010

|url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7307061/Google-Maps-satellite-photos-of-train-graveyard-in-Bolivia.html

|accessdate = 1 April 2018

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{{cite web

|title = Abandoned Trains

|publisher = Lomography.com

|url = https://www.lomography.com/magazine/528-abandoned-trains

|accessdate = 1 April 2018

|url-status = live

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20151108114324/http://www.lomography.com/magazine/528-abandoned-trains

|archivedate = 8 November 2015

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{{cite web

|title = Old locomotives sit abandoned in the middle of Maine

|surname = LaRoche

|first = Matthew

|work = Bangor Daily News

|date = 26 February 2014

|url = http://bangordailynews.com/2014/02/26/outdoors/old-locomotives-sit-abandoned-in-the-middle-of-maine/

|accessdate = 1 April 2018

|url-status = live

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20180430012559/http://bangordailynews.com/2014/02/26/outdoors/old-locomotives-sit-abandoned-in-the-middle-of-maine/

|archivedate = 30 April 2018

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{{cite web

|title = Istvántelek Train Yard

|work = Atlas Obscura

|url = https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/istvantelek-train-yard

|accessdate = 1 April 2018

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|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20171012173324/http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/istvantelek-train-yard

|archivedate = 12 October 2017

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{{cite web

|title = Train Cemetery

|publisher = Expedia

|url = https://www.expedia.co.uk/Train-Cemetery-Uyuni.d6224162.Attraction

|accessdate = 1 April 2018

|url-status = live

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20180402102033/https://www.expedia.co.uk/Train-Cemetery-Uyuni.d6224162.Attraction

|archivedate = 2 April 2018

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{{cite web

|title = The Train Graveyard that Helped Preserve Britain’s Steam Heritage (PHOTOS)

|publisher = Urban Ghosts Media

|url = https://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2013/08/train-graveyard-helped-preserve-british-steam-heritage-photos/

|date = 5 August 2013

|accessdate = 1 April 2018

|url-status = live

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20180420010523/https://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2013/08/train-graveyard-helped-preserve-british-steam-heritage-photos/

|archivedate = 20 April 2018

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• [https://io9.gizmodo.com/behold-the-rusting-beauty-of-abandoned-train-graveyards-668788155 Behold the Rusting Beauty of Abandoned Train Graveyards] at io9.gizmodo.com
• [https://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2015/12/train-graveyards-abandoned-locomotive-cemeteries/ 18 Eerie Train Graveyards & Abandoned Locomotive Cemeteries] at Urban Ghosts
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6NYd6DRufY&t=30s/ SY Steam Locomotives Graveyards & Museum Tangshan, China.] Slideshow by Chinrail1

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