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I think scrapyards capable of scrapping locomotives also scrapped ships and other very large objects including perhaps the WTC towers. <br /> <br />Just because an item is scrapped doesnt mean is gone. The materials often are resold and reprocessed into something else. For example some of the big WTC Tower beams are now several hundred thousand useful objects serving worldwide. <br /> <br />Steam locomotives were probably sent to scrap by the railroads star struck by the desiel's allure of economy, power and profits. I think very little thought if any was given to preservation of steam. They were marked "Scrap" with chalk and shipped rusting and clanking straight to the torch. <br /> <br />In some cases these trainloads of engines destined for scrap was hardly worth the consideration of water and fuel to get them there. <br />I think very few places rate the term Bone yard. There are a number of places out west and south in the dry air preserving and recycling aircraft for the war effort within the last 5 years or more. The Philadelphia Naval Yard could be considered a bone yard as it has a number of ships that might be capable of being put into service within a year. Such service would certainly be restricted to rear echelon or coastal duties as the technologies represented will not survive today's combat. <br /> <br />You can put a steam engine into service but there are too severe losses of infrastructure nationwide to make it really useful. We would have to rebuild alot of what also was scrapped along with the steam engines. <br /> <br />Technology marches on. Those of us who truly has the resources and passion for steam will preserve steam wherever it might be found for our future generations.
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