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Yes. Being from Connecticut I was humored by his comment of a harsh environment. Try not mowing your lawn here for 2 years and you won’t be able to see your house. Another several years, you won’t have a house.
I explored the Baquedano depot and took a lot of pictures there in 2019. Looks like they are leaving it to the elements. Most engines were a lot cleaner five years ago, you could see their original black paint. Maybe it takes a very rare rain to take care of this. A very special place, especially since you can roam around with no „don‘t touch“ or „don‘t climb“ signs and no wardens around. It requires a lot of respect to just look and leave everything as it is. The remoteness of this place clearly helps!
We created some fine technology! One thing is missing: The connection between us, and the understanding and acceptance of other cultures. Most likely this will be our downfall.
It's cool how urban explorers have become a form of historian because they get into interesting and forgotten places and give us a look into things that have been left by time.
Regardless of the tagging or dust, it’s really admirable that Chile has opted to preserve the facility and equipment. Here in California they tear everything down and scrap it without a second thought.
Well that's not exactly accurate. There are numerous examples of historic railroad equipment in California being well preserved, including a number of operating locomotives. Even Disneyland operates historic narrow gauge locomotives.
I am a guy who understands railroad history I. California it is not well preserved a example is Caltrains f40 ph locomotives have just been retired and the company which is state owned and operated refuses to let a locomotive and passenger set be preserved they want to sell it all off. Another thing is steam California has so many restrictions on steam locomotives they can’t even run on the mainline anymore for the most part because of how many regulations and expensive it is.
What led to the demise of the Chilean nitrate industry began when Germany was unable to obtain it in the First World War which led to the development of making Urea. With the development of natural gas it made the synthesizing of the various nitrate compounds relatively cheap compared to mining ancient deposits.
Chile also produced a lot of salt-petre which was used in canning meats. Germany was a large consumer of these and ran great sailing barques, around Cape Horn, well Into the 20th century. The north of chile is bloody and tragic story. A naval war in 1873 saw chile wrest its present northern territories away from Peru and Bolivian. Behind all this was the city of London, that controlled chile through Valparaiso. 1905 miners strike in Iquique. 5,000 miners killed by Chilean army. This period closely tracks with Britains colonial opium wars in china. Breathtakingly immoral individuals working in tightly organized mafias, globally. Taking everything in sight.
Hard to imagine that one day no train ever moved again from or to this site. Kind of like not remembering when you last picked up your child and held them before they grew to big.
Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia (FCAB) is still operating. Their brightly painted locomotives haul copper down to the port of Antofagasta - the last leg runs down the main street from the old station to the port.
Amazing how well preserved they are, being its such a dry place its like the perfect place to keep them. Great to see them on video, thanks for showing us them.
WOW!!!! That place is incredible.. It as if it was a snapshot 2000 years into the future, and the next civilization stumbled across it as was Egypt.. That's amazing and thought-provoking.
As a chilean railroad fan, you nailed it! Great video, Baquedano's workshop is a great place to visit. And I see that you were well informed of the locomotives that are found there. I didn't expect to see this place in your channel. Well done!
Even in broad daylight, the effect is eerie. Total silence beyond the soundtrack narrative and music. No birdcalls, no civilization sounds, not even wind. This place could be on a distant planet... It would make an awesome movie location, especially for a surreal dream sequence! Thank you so much for sharing! 😊
Now this is good stuff, in Detroit Michigan there is a repair and maintenance hub like this still in operation maintaining steam locomotives, at Greenfield Village, near the Henry Ford Museum, you can even go for a ride, fascinating, I recommend the Museum also.
Kan niet wachten op de nieuwe video! En rob je heb mij een hele nieuwe ervaring gegeven om te bekijken in vakanties. Gewoone vakanties zo als strand zijn zo saai thanks man
What a beautiful sight😍 seeing steam locomotives just sitting presserved is amazing. My 2 favourites are the black 5's and 9f's. Lovely work horse engines. But any stesm locomotive is an amazing piece of history, and I get dewy eyed looking at them😁
The level of preservation is mind-blowing. It's good to see that vandals and the graffiti community haven't spoiled this important site. Thanks for documenting this 👌🏻🇬🇧
Love the video. If wasn't for explorer's like you Bob I wouldn't get to see these things. Thank you for sharing and all your hard work you put into each one. 🙂👍💖
That is really amazing that all of those trains and train cars are still there along with the roundhouse. I thought all of those would have been destroyed by now. It's nice to see it still stands at this time.
yes, all of our schmalspuhrbahn (1000 and 750mm) steam locomotives (and all small gauge railways for them) are destroyed, except for one, painted black, which is on momument of it near train station.; jewish-pollack kchruschev, an english and reptilian aliens spy massively began to destroy steam trains (and saboutagely stopped their^ production in 1957's), and specially destroyed our just-built transpolar railroad with steam locomotives which was buit to supply out polar military base for superbattleships "soviet union" (maybe)) and an aircraft carrier protecting them which were producing in Severodvisk but also specially cancelled by english spy kchruschev-perlmutter (and so we don't have any of significal and suitable for combat descents (on our alaska, hokkaido, korea, taiti, hawaii, oregon and california maybe :-) ) navy now). he also specially destroyed (specially payed very much for it cutting for wood) all of our specially grown for food in kernels siberian ceddar trees and we don't have a much of healthy food and are dying from eating of too much unhealthy and unsuitable for nordic hyperboreans grain bread.
30+ years working on the railroad and this is absolutely amazing to me! Hats off to the Chilean people for keeping this for the future to see and hopefully it can be brought back to life.❤️
2:11 id argue that the desert is one of the most forgiving places on the planet for trains, planes, and automobiles. Look at the USAF boneyard at david monthan afb in the middle of the Arizona desert or pima air and space museum right next to it beside the paint the planes are in perfect condition they still look better than some of the planes that our stored at inside museums that ive seen.
dude, you are incredible, i just don't know how you are able to find all these historical treasures, and where is that old roundhouse anyways, i would love to see it for myself one day.
Amazing video, amazing location, beautiful trains and I love the music you used! Greetings from Namibia and I love chasing trains here in the Namib Desert and this video reminded me so much of my country with a lot of German influence when it comes to the railroad as Germany constructed the first railroad here in Namibia.
Amazing video! It amazes me that everything is rusted, but the locomotive wheels look like someone painted them recently! Before, products were really made honestly...
Thanks so much for this video. I've been to Chile a few times but I've not been able to make it there. I'm too old now to get there but this video is almost as good as going. The music and visuals are both excellent.
What a beautiful and somewhat eerie place, fascinating, it’s great that there are people who find these places and document them thus preserving their history even more and allowing more people to see them who maybe cannot ever get to these places. What a stunning place for photography. 😊 we should never forget the past or be tarred by the same brush, the past is there not to be erased but to learn from and strive to do better, whether it’s learn for the past to from a bette future or to preserve the past to remember the things that were achieved. So many people these days don’t see that without he past a lot of today would never be. Places like that are fascinating as if any Moment the dust would be shaken off and the next shift would arrive! Imagine what it would have looked like in this day. 😊
Pretty darn impressive, even with the goofy scifi "theme music" in the background. A shame nobody has yet to do any restoring of these historic beasts...
At a local museum they have a warehouse full of locomotives and equipment they plan to restore at some point. These trains in the desert look pristine in comparison.
What an amazing and evocative place! It should seriously go onto the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sights 😍 A black and white photographer's dream destination! One couldn't ask for a better preservation environment; those artifacts could still be there in a thousand years, with negligible further deterioration 😁
Un superbe reportage et tout en espérant que cet endroit soit bien gardé secret et surtout toutes ces vieilles machines qui sont un véritable trésor de la mémoire ...
Unfortunately presenting this kind of find (and abandoned buildings in general really), can attract vandals and thieves to the locations. Hopefully this being in the desert puts people off going.
Sadly, this is true. And this is why when I find a really nice or interesting place, I tell very few people about it, if any. There's a risk that too many people who don't have the responsibility to look after it will go there and trash it. Look at what's happened with Mount Everest (for example), so much junk & rubbish abandoned there, that they're having to send in clean up expeditions to extract all the man-made detritis which is spoiling the natural environment there.
Remarkable preservation from a desert environment. I guess it is shape the such perfect relics cannot be moved to a museum environment. I would guess not many people get to make the long trek, otherwise, to go and see them.
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No rain, no humidity, no rust. An amazing sight.
Yes. Being from Connecticut I was humored by his comment of a harsh environment. Try not mowing your lawn here for 2 years and you won’t be able to see your house. Another several years, you won’t have a house.
And, no graffiti. 🙂
wow that is awesome !
Yes, begging to be restored to a working condition.
Naturally occurring sandblasting helps
I explored the Baquedano depot and took a lot of pictures there in 2019. Looks like they are leaving it to the elements. Most engines were a lot cleaner five years ago, you could see their original black paint. Maybe it takes a very rare rain to take care of this.
A very special place, especially since you can roam around with no „don‘t touch“ or „don‘t climb“ signs and no wardens around.
It requires a lot of respect to just look and leave everything as it is. The remoteness of this place clearly helps!
Looking at these locos in their present state gives me the same feeling as when I look at mummies.
@@zombywoof1072 ---I also thought of mummies. I'm surprised at any rust, since it supposedly never rains, or never even has rained.
@@elultimo102 "rust never sleeps"
Even the one rare rain there probably won't do much tbh 😅
The prolific brainpower of the human being is astonishing. The locomotives are works of art. Fabulous.
Great video post.
We created some fine technology! One thing is missing: The connection between us, and the understanding and acceptance of other cultures. Most likely this will be our downfall.
I don’t understand woke culture 😢
It's cool how urban explorers have become a form of historian because they get into interesting and forgotten places and give us a look into things that have been left by time.
It’s sad really seeing these places.
@@Grant80 No it's probably interesting!!
The gold standard of urban exploration videos🥇thanks Bob
Regardless of the tagging or dust, it’s really admirable that Chile has opted to preserve the facility and equipment. Here in California they tear everything down and scrap it without a second thought.
Well that's not exactly accurate. There are numerous examples of historic railroad equipment in California being well preserved, including a number of operating locomotives.
Even Disneyland operates historic narrow gauge locomotives.
It cost them almost nothing to preserve; the desert did that. Protecting the site is mainly against vandals. But it's good.
Callie tears anything it gets its hands on apart.
@@Jacy-dx6dxwrong. Go have a good cry.🙄
I am a guy who understands railroad history I. California it is not well preserved a example is Caltrains f40 ph locomotives have just been retired and the company which is state owned and operated refuses to let a locomotive and passenger set be preserved they want to sell it all off. Another thing is steam California has so many restrictions on steam locomotives they can’t even run on the mainline anymore for the most part because of how many regulations and expensive it is.
What led to the demise of the Chilean nitrate industry began when Germany was unable to obtain it in the First World War which led to the development of making Urea.
With the development of natural gas it made the synthesizing of the various nitrate compounds relatively cheap compared to mining ancient deposits.
Chile also produced a lot of salt-petre which was used in canning meats. Germany was a large consumer of these and ran great sailing barques, around Cape Horn, well
Into the 20th century.
The north of chile is bloody and tragic story. A naval war in 1873 saw chile wrest its present northern territories away from Peru and Bolivian. Behind all this was the city of London, that controlled chile through Valparaiso.
1905 miners strike in Iquique. 5,000 miners killed by Chilean army. This period closely tracks with Britains colonial opium wars in china. Breathtakingly immoral individuals working in tightly organized mafias, globally. Taking everything in sight.
@@vincentdow5899 .... same people ...behind crimes of Boer War, and now ukr
Hard to imagine that one day no train ever moved again from or to this site. Kind of like not remembering when you last picked up your child and held them before they grew to big.
Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia (FCAB) is still operating. Their brightly painted locomotives haul copper down to the port of Antofagasta - the last leg runs down the main street from the old station to the port.
As a train fan this is like a dream come true.
Looks much more as a nightmare to me...
@@marcvandyck8052 Why would you think so?
Yeah, they are in a remarkably good state for locomotives that have been abandoned for several decades. They probably could still be restored.
@@BilisNegra he just wants to be a douche.
I'm steamed
Amazing how well preserved they are, being its such a dry place its like the perfect place to keep them. Great to see them on video, thanks for showing us them.
It's a true privilege to watch you explore these forgotten places for us. Amazing!!!
Amazing to see places in countries that the majority of Urbex videos didn't showcase yet, glad the algorithm blessed me with this one today.
WOW!!!! That place is incredible.. It as if it was a snapshot 2000 years into the future, and the next civilization stumbled across it as was Egypt.. That's amazing and thought-provoking.
As a chilean railroad fan, you nailed it! Great video, Baquedano's workshop is a great place to visit. And I see that you were well informed of the locomotives that are found there. I didn't expect to see this place in your channel. Well done!
Even in broad daylight, the effect is eerie. Total silence beyond the soundtrack narrative and music. No birdcalls, no civilization sounds, not even wind. This place could be on a distant planet... It would make an awesome movie location, especially for a surreal dream sequence! Thank you so much for sharing! 😊
This was an amazing video. I worked on the Railroad for 2 years and now I enjoy watching videos like this. Thank you for sharing.
I think it'd be awesome to see this yard brought back to life
I second that motion!!! 🤠👍
Wat een bijzondere plek weer! Ook wel zonde dat het zo erbij staat,
Bedankt weer! Zit weer veel liefde in de video!
Now this is good stuff, in Detroit Michigan there is a repair and maintenance hub like this still in operation maintaining steam locomotives, at Greenfield Village, near the Henry Ford Museum, you can even go for a ride, fascinating, I recommend the Museum also.
I keep it in mind when I return to Detroit 🙏😃Thanks a lot
I’m a couple minutes away from greenfield village , went to the imax theater a couple times , never went to the museum
Bob, this video was a work of art. The videos you create never fail to give me a rich and thoughtful experience.
Thanks so much, Bob! I loved it. I felt like I was there. The locomotive shed reminds me of Tempelhof airport.
It's pretty wild how well they're preserved in the dry environment
Kan niet wachten op de nieuwe video! En rob je heb mij een hele nieuwe ervaring gegeven om te bekijken in vakanties. Gewoone vakanties zo als strand zijn zo saai thanks man
What a beautiful sight😍 seeing steam locomotives just sitting presserved is amazing.
My 2 favourites are the black 5's and 9f's. Lovely work horse engines.
But any stesm locomotive is an amazing piece of history, and I get dewy eyed looking at them😁
The level of preservation is mind-blowing. It's good to see that vandals and the graffiti community haven't spoiled this important site.
Thanks for documenting this 👌🏻🇬🇧
It's too isolated for them
Aboslutely amazing video Bob! Your inspiration and hardwork pays off in all your video's. Thank you for all you do!!
Love the video. If wasn't for explorer's like you Bob I wouldn't get to see these things. Thank you for sharing and all your hard work you put into each one. 🙂👍💖
That is really amazing that all of those trains and train cars are still there along with the roundhouse. I thought all of those would have been destroyed by now. It's nice to see it still stands at this time.
It's incredible how well preserved those locomotives are. Great video!
yes, all of our schmalspuhrbahn (1000 and 750mm) steam locomotives (and all small gauge railways for them) are destroyed, except for one, painted black, which is on momument of it near train station.; jewish-pollack kchruschev, an english and reptilian aliens spy massively began to destroy steam trains (and saboutagely stopped their^ production in 1957's), and specially destroyed our just-built transpolar railroad with steam locomotives which was buit to supply out polar military base for superbattleships "soviet union" (maybe)) and an aircraft carrier protecting them which were producing in Severodvisk but also specially cancelled by english spy kchruschev-perlmutter (and so we don't have any of significal and suitable for combat descents (on our alaska, hokkaido, korea, taiti, hawaii, oregon and california maybe :-) ) navy now). he also specially destroyed (specially payed very much for it cutting for wood) all of our specially grown for food in kernels siberian ceddar trees and we don't have a much of healthy food and are dying from eating of too much unhealthy and unsuitable for nordic hyperboreans grain bread.
Very good coverage of an amazing, almost forgotten place. Thank you for sharing.
30+ years working on the railroad and this is absolutely amazing to me! Hats off to the Chilean people for keeping this for the future to see and hopefully it can be brought back to life.❤️
That’s incredible and the in-depth history with it absolute props ☺️
What an amazing place, well done, Bob ❤
Wow this will be fun. Headed there in two months. Thanks for my bucket list. Can’t wait
Great machines and a great location. It almost looks like an arena where locomotives came to battle it out.
What a blast from the past .
So glad you posted this. I explored it as much as I could with Google Satellite, but this brought it home!
Please help me find it on google maps
💖🙏💖
A really nice and peaceful area that transports a person back in time!
Das ist wunderbar Bob. Danke schön!
Oh wow Bob!! This is so fantastic🚂 Almost speechless! Love railroad stuff.
2:11 id argue that the desert is one of the most forgiving places on the planet for trains, planes, and automobiles. Look at the USAF boneyard at david monthan afb in the middle of the Arizona desert or pima air and space museum right next to it beside the paint the planes are in perfect condition they still look better than some of the planes that our stored at inside museums that ive seen.
Then they must maintain them😁
Awesome short video! Really nice to see these marvels of machinery.
Thanks! It was a fun short stop
This is really a great video. You hit the jackpot for the railway guys. Wonderful photography and excellent research. Well done!!
These graphics are amazing!
So true to life and realistic.
Thanks Bob! What an amazing site!
Amazing. Some men spent their lives designing and building these machines for them to end up like this. Its incredibly sad.
dude, you are incredible, i just don't know how you are able to find all these historical treasures, and where is that old roundhouse anyways, i would love to see it for myself one day.
Amazing video, amazing location, beautiful trains and I love the music you used! Greetings from Namibia and I love chasing trains here in the Namib Desert and this video reminded me so much of my country with a lot of German influence when it comes to the railroad as Germany constructed the first railroad here in Namibia.
The subtle background music sets the right atmosphere!
It is sad but at least they are still there, and NOT cut for scrap, very few steam locomotive round houses still exist nowadays!!
There was one in Erode, Tamilnadu, India. I am not sure whether it exists today.
@@s.davidanantharaj5310 Lets HOPE it is STILL there!!!!!
One in Helsinki in Pasila, still somewhat used for its original purpose.
humans are so good at building stuff then abandoning it when something else comes along.
You are the best explorer and adventurer I have ever seen and you have interesting, pure and exemplary content, my friend🙏😎💪
Magnificent! Congratulations and thank you for sharing.
Those antiques are in fantastic shape
And here's me thinking Sodor was a fictional place. Thomas, that you?
Amazing Video!
Looking forward to more! Awesome to see a real life roundel for trains
Another great video Bob , stay safe dude 😎😎🤘🤘🇹🇭🇹🇭
Amazing video! It amazes me that everything is rusted, but the locomotive wheels look like someone painted them recently! Before, products were really made honestly...
My favourite you tube Chanel, Bob You a king
Is this the Atacama Desert? What an amazing place! Time has stood still! Cheers from Australia.
Beautiful Locomotives resting, time served well, Fantastic Beasts to see, credit to you and your travels
Thanks so much for this video. I've been to Chile a few times but I've not been able to make it there. I'm too old now to get there but this video is almost as good as going. The music and visuals are both excellent.
Thanks! Glad you got to see it this way😁
Awesome video. Great content, presentation and production value.
👍👍👏👏
Beautiful video. Thank you! 🙏🏻
Awesome video. Your channel is the best. There should be millions of hits
❤👌Great Exploration Happy for joirney 👍
What a Beautiful Site…, and great Show! Thank You 🙏
Thanks for checking out!🤩
Thank you for a review of these long-retired workhorses. Enjoyed seeing these.
They are preserve almost to 100% that’s insane to see 💪💪💪💪🤟🤟🤟🤟
One of my new favorites!
That’s beautiful. A real gem.
What a beautiful and somewhat eerie place, fascinating, it’s great that there are people who find these places and document them thus preserving their history even more and allowing more people to see them who maybe cannot ever get to these places. What a stunning place for photography. 😊 we should never forget the past or be tarred by the same brush, the past is there not to be erased but to learn from and strive to do better, whether it’s learn for the past to from a bette future or to preserve the past to remember the things that were achieved. So many people these days don’t see that without he past a lot of today would never be. Places like that are fascinating as if any Moment the dust would be shaken off and the next shift would arrive! Imagine what it would have looked like in this day. 😊
Pretty darn impressive, even with the goofy scifi "theme music" in the background.
A shame nobody has yet to do any restoring of these historic beasts...
At a local museum they have a warehouse full of locomotives and equipment they plan to restore at some point. These trains in the desert look pristine in comparison.
Wow.... Eine Zeitreise.... Danke aus der Schweiz.... ✌🙏✌
Thanks! I recently uploaded a mine with old Volkswagens in Switzerland
Very atmospheric video, Dave. I enjoyed it.
Great video as usual. You are the best my friend
What an amazing and evocative place! It should seriously go onto the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sights 😍 A black and white photographer's dream destination! One couldn't ask for a better preservation environment; those artifacts could still be there in a thousand years, with negligible further deterioration 😁
I bet one of those steam engines are in good enough shape to run under its own power
The historical info is very interesting! I bet this stuff will last quite a while sitting in such a dry environment.
Awesome explore Bob!
Would sure be cool to restore these well preserved locomotives and cars
Great filming, really interesting, many thanks
Super cool stuff, thanks for sharing!
So freaking cool man! I didn't think any of these where still around
That is amazing thank you for sharing this.
100 jear old locos 😮 in that good shape...
Thanks for the great videos you make Bob . 🎉
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
Looks like many of those steam locomotives could be brought back to life with very little effort!
Un superbe reportage et tout en espérant que cet endroit soit bien gardé secret et surtout toutes ces vieilles machines qui sont un véritable trésor de la mémoire ...
Unfortunately presenting this kind of find (and abandoned buildings in general really), can attract vandals and thieves to the locations. Hopefully this being in the desert puts people off going.
Sadly, this is true. And this is why when I find a really nice or interesting place, I tell very few people about it, if any. There's a risk that too many people who don't have the responsibility to look after it will go there and trash it. Look at what's happened with Mount Everest (for example), so much junk & rubbish abandoned there, that they're having to send in clean up expeditions to extract all the man-made detritis which is spoiling the natural environment there.
Look like alien or post apocalyptic earth movie set😮
It was a surreal sight!
This place is beautiful
This is awesome ❤❤❤❤
Thanks for checking out😊😊😊
Did you see the military underground workshop in China? That was a crazy one😁
Thanks so much for sharing
Remarkable preservation from a desert environment. I guess it is shape the such perfect relics cannot be moved to a museum environment. I would guess not many people get to make
the long trek, otherwise, to go and see them.
Hi Bob, thank you for this fascinating video.