Sadly, Utterly Abandoned Modes of Transport

I can’t help but think of the people who once grabbed the wheel and tooled down the road, sailed across vast waters, hopped a bus, or took to the rail. To work, to school, to the grocery, to Christmas dinner with the family. I wonder where my first car, an old green Dodge Polara with a dirty white vinyl top, is now? It was huge and ugly, but it got me where I needed to go for several years. It had a serious issue with overheating that no mechanic could ever solve. The only recourse was to drive with the heat on high, year-round. It was a killer in Indiana through July and August every year. I wonder, did someone resolve that issue and restore the car? Or more likely, is it slowly rusting into nothingness in a junkyard somewhere in central Indiana? I’ll never know and it doesn’t really matter. All these vehicles mattered to someone at some time, but no longer.

Abandoned off the beach of Santa Rosa Island by the EPA, 1972

by JayMantri

by Jan Pauw

by Nicholas T

Sheep and an abandoned A30 at Island Moyle by Eric Jones

Train at abandoned station of the town “Onverwacht” in Suriname. This station was part of a railway line built by Cornelis Lely especially for the transport of gold miners to and from the interior regions of Suriname. The line went out of function in the Eighties. by Mark Ahsmann

Big touring car abandoned at Little Duck Key, a small, undeveloped and unihabited island in the lower Florida Keys, usually used for fishing and camping. by the EPA, 1970 Wikimedia

Canary Islands by tpsdave

Abandoned Isuzu Trooper in Morecambe Bay, about 400 metres from the shore near Bolton-le-Sands. by Rwendland

Alton, Illinois by DanielSTL

Not abandoned, but an interesting picture worth sharing. “The Gare Montparnasse became famous for the derailment on 22 October 1895 of the Granville–Paris Express, which overran the buffer stop. by Wikipedia