in the tunnels under Naples

The tunnels remained disused until the beginning of the 1930s, when they became a warehouse for impounded and contraband vehicles. During World War II, the subterranean space was converted into a military hospital and a bomb shelter. After the war, the tunnels became a dumping ground of wartime rubble including building debris, old televisions sets and refrigerators, destroyed cars and motorcycles, and pro-fascists marble statues before it was sealed up and forgotten.

Today, these tunnels with their accumulated debris have been turned into a gallery known as Galleria Borbonica, where the public can see interesting displays of vintage cars and motorbikes, old shelter spots, ancient cisterns and much more.

http://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/10/the-forgotten-tunnel-under-naples.html

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a couple abandoned mining towns had narrow gauge railroads, and rumor has it that one of the narrow gauge locomotives was still at one of the ghost towns.

After closing the mining towns and the trains that served them, a locomotive was left parked on the tracks alongside Gypsum creek. Duane Ericson located the locomotive on its side in the creekbed where the grade had washed out.

http://www.freerails.com/view_topic.php?id=2948&forum_id=17&jump_to=50813#p50813

That may not have been the only, or the original, locomotive used at Gypsum. Accounts vary, but one of Gypsum’s locomotives may be at the bottom of Milbanke Sound in British Columbia.

 The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s wreck tables say that 2000 tons of gypsum and “a locomotive for Tacoma” (possibly being sent out for repairs) were on board the Alaska Barge Co’s James Drummond, southbound from Gypsum, when she ran aground and sank in October of 1914.
https://saveitforparts.wordpress.com/projects/lesser-known-and-obscure-railroads-of-alaska/

Another one was

and here is what it looked like when it was in use

http://ronsimpson.blogspot.com/2010/12/ch-26-pt-2-arrival-at-kennecott.html

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Steam locomotive graveyard, Queenstown South Africa

Photos by Piet Conradie   http://steam-locomotives-south-africa.blogspot.com/2009/09/queenstown-locomotive-graveyard.html 

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when the giant Bethlehem Steel closed they just left the facility fire trucks in the building!

http://carzhunt.blogspot.com/2016/02/firehunter-just-for-today.html

http://www.abandonedamerica.us/photo18854497.html?fb_comment_id=637182922972588_905369506153927#f32fcc8fa705be4

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the remains of a 0-6-0 built in 1920, and was subsequently abandoned. Coastal erosion means it is about to fall into the Tasman Sea.

First used by the New Zealand Public Works Department then the Bruce Bay Timber Company on the west coast from 1935 to 1945

Photo: John Birchfield

http://trainrover.blogspot.com/2016/02/new-zealand-january-2016-3-industrial.html

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