Gallery: The Beautiful Junkyard Where Bolivia's Trains Were Left to Rot
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The train cemetery is just outside Uyuni, Bolivia, near the world's largest salt flat.
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A booming mining industry attracted the British, who built a railway though here in the late 19th century.
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In the 1940s, the industry declined.
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Steam trains were abandoned outside the city and left to rust.
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After decades in the wind, near a massive collection of salt, they're rusted out.
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Covered in graffiti, the trains take on a strange beauty.
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The site has become a minor attraction.
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Tourists in the region stop here before visiting the nearby salt flat.
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The trains now double as an industrial playground.
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Now, the country has attracted foreign attention again, thanks to its enormous deposits of lithium, used to make batteries for smartphones and electric cars.
