This came up on Bob Yarger's great Yahoo Group. Very cool:

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1305

What an interesting place, built to be abandoned.

Thanks for that link :)

Mike

Interesting boiler failure on that steam locomotive. Seems unlikely that just sitting there rotting would cause a locomotive boiler to fall apart like that, especially when so many of the wooden structures around it are still standing. I imagine there has to be more to that story.

Major freeze damage to a boiler that was never drained??

Steve Hunter

Look closely. Torch has been applied to the barrel near the riveted seam. And someone cut a crank pin or two. Looks like this one was being scrapped and the work stopped, maybe at the point of a gun.....

There are vandals/thieves everywhere.

Howard P.

I'm getting really sick and tired of all these brass and copper theives. But I like it when they break into hydro-sub stations and die trying to steal a cable worth $50...