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One word: CHAINSAW
Simon
Another "one word": Photoshop!
I hate that! It is interesting, fun, and yet sad to blunder on abandoned track or roadbed, maybe in front of a crumbling elevator, or just off through a field.
I would say not photoshoped. If you look at the rails around the tree you can see they are bowed, which makes me believe this was found along some abandoned line some where.
Well, this one ain't photoshopped:
Rusty
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rtraincollector posted:I would say not photoshoped. If you look at the rails around the tree you can see they are bowed, which makes me believe this was found along some abandoned line some where.
That's what I based my comment on.
Simon
NAWWW, I have the ONE word...NOTCH 8 !!!!! Full speed ahead!!
Rick
The tracks seem to be bowed outward, but not upward. I don't think a tree would do that. Therefore, I think it is a photo shopped picture.
Years ago a distant family member picked up an amusement park train with a tree growing up through the center of the loco. They had to cut the tree to get the train.
That is the condition of the UP sub west of Buckeye, AZ that reconnects with the UP transcon just east of Yuma near the Colorado River. Over 100 miles of cars in storage at the time and there are desert trees and shrubs growing between the rails. I assume the cars are sitting awaiting the trust period to run out. They are mostly older well cars and autoracks.
Maybe 20 years ago, somewhere between Montgomery, Ala., and the Fla. panhandle, l passed what seemed like miles of Railbox cars, entwined, covered over, and almost hidden, by kudzu. I remember thinking a couple of Big boys couldn't move those until a chainsaw gang got in there.
Acme's best customer, Wile E. Coyote would use the line. Through the tree!
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One I took myself (and I don't own Photoshop software 
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On the Grand Canyon Railway trackage near South Rim in 1987 while the line was still in limbo:
Jim
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Oh, yes it is:
Rusty
Train will come. PTC could not detect this fault.
These are known as branch lines.
On the south end of the East Broad Top, the ties have totally decomposed and the rails have sunk into the ground. The ROW is as difficult to find as if it had been ripped up!
I remember seeing a sapling growing through the middle of an old D&RGW narrow gauge stock car on the Durango--Silverton line about ten--twelve years ago. The photo on the first thread seems just about believable.
