Rail roads and their tracks.

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ArlyA said:
Chile Desert Train by Jean-Marc Frybourg.

This is the "Ferrocarril de Potrerillos" in North Chile, near Diego de Almagro.

Here it is: https://is.gd/SeuBPpView attachment 818731
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I saw a show last year on this and how little money they have to run these trains.
The crew does many of the repairs themselves and there are very few runs left.
Some really dedicated people.
 
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The Andes are incredible terrain. Nariz del Diablo (Devil's Nose) railroad in Ecuador was built to connect Guayaquil (seaport) to Quito (the capital) high in the Andes. Everything is so steep that footpaths had been the only routes for millennia. Around 1890 the government started a plan for roads and railroads to tie together the regions of the nation. The Nariz del Diablo route was said to be the most difficult engineering project for a railroad anywhere. It uses 'zig-zags' copied from the Manchu Picchu route.

The train runs up past a switch to a deadend, reverses, takes the uphill branch of the switch that it just crossed to climb higher.

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There are probably better YouTube videos for the Nariz del Diablo train but this tourism travelogue is the first one I found. I suggest start here (3 minutes in), jump to interesting parts. English text is below the video.

 
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In Texas this 1905 photo of the aftermath of a train derailment somewhere in DeWitt County, near Nordheim. It tumped over, so they had to call in the untumper. I've never seen a machine like this, but it makes sense that such things had to exist.
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I never hear the word 'tumped'. Learn something new every day! :)

tump
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verb​

tumped; tumping; tumps
intransitive verb
chiefly Southern US : to tip or turn over especially accidentally

—usually used with over
sooner or later everybody tumps over. Nothing to worry about if you don't get caught under the canoe—Don Kennard
 
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MossRoad said:
I never hear the word 'tumped'. Learn something new every day! :)

tump
2 of 2

verb​

tumped; tumping; tumps
intransitive verb
chiefly Southern US : to tip or turn over especially accidentally

—usually used with over
sooner or later everybody tumps over. Nothing to worry about if you don't get caught under the canoe—Don Kennard
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Neither had I. Maybe a southern states thing?
 
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