You are viewing a single comment's thread from:RE: #58 Train Cemetery in the Middle of the Atacama Desert (1) 🚂 茫茫大漠中的火车墓场（一）| 摄影月旦评View the full contextkotturinn (69)in #aswcontest • 7 years ago Nice photos! Do you know why the place got abandoned?
Thanks @kotturinn! :) I mentioned in my post that "Until the late 1970s when the steam locomotives was giving way to diesel engines, the station eventually fell into disuse". It's mainly because the steam locomotives were getting uneconomical.