Where do trains go to die?

Question

Where do trains go to die?

Answer 1

india , pakistan , they live out their lives there

Answer 2

Some go into store, others go to scrap yards like CF booths in Rotherham

Answer 3

The scrap-yard :) (though sometimes they are sold on to other countries)

Answer 4

We have them run into each other

Answer 5

The bus stop!

Answer 6

all trains are sold for the dollar so thay can buy more trains ...the dollar you pay coming and you pay going so just keep paying dont say anything or thay will buy more trains to keep the trains going

Answer 7

sometimes they go back to the manufacturer, and they recycle the drivetrain / trucks , and then cut up the rest for scrap. I'm not sure how much the recycling goes on nowadays, but it used to be a customer, if he had old engines, could trade them in, and have the old trucks, refurbished, installed under the new engines to save money. They're all pretty much the same design, so it is possible to do that, if they're by the same manufacturer. Then the body of the engine gets picked over for parts, and then cut up for scrap metal.

  Other cars, like flats, boxcars, tankers, etc. have the same thing happen, they're used and abused until there'd no value left, then they are stripped of parts, usually by the owning railroad, and scrapped out. The rolling stock is rarely recycled , other than the trucks, and if those are too old, they won't be, either.

- The Gremlin Guy -

Answer 8

the obsolete cars usually sit in a siding or storage facitlity for awhile until their owners decide there truly is no further use for them, then they are cut up for scrap and recycled.

So in a sense rail cars are rather Buddhist, there is an afterlife for them.

Answer 9

When old trains or loco's are withdrawn from service, they are usually stored for a number of years incase they are required for further use or are used to supply spare parts to other similar trains. After this they are sold for scrap. Some loco's are aquired by groups to run them on private railways, others go to be cut up. There are several scrap yards in the UK that cut up Trains and Loco's, these are....C F Booths (Rotherham), European Metals Recycling/EMR (Kingsbury), Simms Metals (Nottingham), T J Thompsons (Stockton on Tees). Other companies such as the Harry Needle Railroad Co,  and Raxstar etc scrap trains at depots (on site)

Answer 10

Mostly trains are cannibalised of all the reusable parts..either to the train operating companies who own them or to groups who have bought older Loco's and stock for private use.

When all the reusable parts have gone..then the units,coaches or loco's have to be scrapped...after 1st being cleared of toxic or poisonous remains(asbestos...oils etc).

Then the remains are cut up for scrap and recycled.

Who knows......that coke can might one day have been a express locomotive!

And then again....that coke can you just threw away could one day take you quickly across the country.

Answer 11

Scrap yard.

Answer 12

'Siding in the sky' - wouldn't it be nice to see lovely steam engines orbitting the earth.

Answer 13

the end of the line, The train junkyard, or as my daughter says...down the toilet(we flushed her fish down the toilet so now when someone or something dies...yup she asks to flush down the toilet to heaven. gotta love kids!)

Answer 14

train cemetery

Answer 15

Train heaven, and some go 2 train h**l...

Answer 16

Some get scraped into metal or some just get dumped into the sea. (AKA the Red birds in NY.) or some just get left on the dead line!! Depends on the Rail company.

Answer 17

they go to candyland to die

Answer 18

The Isle Of Wight.

Answer 19

A giant hole where all the train tracks end.

Answer 20

The scrapyard... like Woodhams at Barry in Wales.  That was only when the lines of decommisioned engines were growing faster than the railway companies could scrap them though.  

  

Usually Motive Power Depots have lines of 'Dead Engines' waiting for disposal, some parts either removed or else cannibalised to keep other engines going.

Answer 21

They usually croaked when in my consist...

Answer 22

The Strategic Reserve

Answer 23

the great scrap yard in the sky!

Answer 24

Why, the secret network off the Box Tunnel, of course! Everyone knows that!

Answer 25

Usually right in front of my car just before I'm going to cross over the tracks.

Answer 26

In what ever siding that the dispatcher puts me into.

Answer 27

the train hospital and then the train cemetery

Answer 28

Booth's at Rotherham,there's also a line of loco's you can see being cutup on the Birmingham to Derby Line just outside Burton-on-Trent.

Answer 29

to the scrap yards where they are stripped down and then recycled, as about 80% of a train can be re-used.

Answer 30

The end of the line.

Answer 31

Hull