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Top Gear season 14 went to the North Pole, and about 10 miles from it found this C-47

Never going to be fixed, sold, or saved... owners are sometimes bastards to the cool cars in their yards

All found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/565525893463925/

the abandoned locomotive in Bolivia, intriguing, but not as incredible as the abandoned locomotives in Greece

I don't recall where I found the above image, but you can see many more like it, and the below image of the abandoned trains in Thessaloniki Greece http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2334761/Its-oh-quiet-The-eerie-abandoned-towns-left-rust-gather-dust.html

'Happy End' - a Photo-Book about Miracles in Aviation History,

'Happy End' is a photo-project about miracles in aviation history - 15 airplanes that had forced landings but ALL on board survived and were rescued from the remote locations. The planes remain abandoned in nowhere since 10-70 years.

photos from http://www.thecoolist.com/happy-end-photographs-by-dietmar-eckell/ and http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/happy-end-a-photo-book-about-miracles-in-aviation-history

THE BOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE !

With the help of crowdfunding the book was printed and is now available for online purchase. If you are interested in the 96 page hardcover book with facts, stories and 53 large pictures of the 15 planes:

- for shipment outside Europe please paypal $49 USD: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=79WTDCRFS2NSA

- for shipment in Europe please paypal € 35 EURO: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GPCUVMT9C3WD2

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With Paypal you can pay with your credit card even without having a Paypal account. Please allow 2-3 weeks for overseas shipments. With the purchase of the book you will also get access to the 'making of' pdf files with location, links and how i got to the 15 planes.

If you are interested in a Fine Art Print please contact dietmar.eckell@gmail.com .

For more of my work: www.dietmareckell.com

For updates pls 'like' my facebook page: www.fb.com/138143699584627

the plane in the lake is a Bristol Freighter http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-channel-air-bridge.html

Whoa! This is a stunner! Hidden under the Waldorf Astoria is the railcar that FDR used, a secret railcar elevator from Grand Central... wow

Lying forgotten two hundred feet below one of America’s most iconic buildings lies the closely guarded secret of one of America’s finest presidents - rusting away when it could be a monument to his greatness. Hidden under the Grand Central train terminal in New York lies a vast area that was unknown to the outside world until the late Eighties. It houses the power network that is responsible for the electricity that runs the entire station - and was a key target for Hitler during the Second World War. But there is also the little known Waldorf-Astoria platform, which is known by Grand Central staff as the Roosevelt Platform. And there is parked the decaying hulk of the train the four-times elected president used to hide his disability, the paralysis from the waist down which forced him to use a wheelchair in private.

In such difficult times, Franklin Delano Roosevelt did not want anybody to know of his own problems and arranged to journey in and out of New York via Grand Central in a personal armoured train. ‘The platform is directly under the Waldorf Astoria and after Roosevelt’s 6000 horse powered diesel train would pull up on the tracks it would let his personal car out of the side,’ said Dan Brucker, 52, spokesperson for Metro North, the company that runs Grand Central Terminal. ‘The car would then drive off the dark and secret platform into an elevator which would take it directly into the Waldorf Astoria garage. ‘This served to protect Roosevelt’s safety and protect his disability through polio from the public at large.’

Constructed as part of the redesigned terminal in 1913, this colossal top-secret area ten storeys deep - known as M42 - was left off all blueprints for the station and its existence was only officially acknowledged by the station owners in the late 1980’s. Accessible via a lift that is almost 100 years old, M42 is still one of the most closely guarded areas. The exact location of M42 is still classified information,’ said Mr Brucker. ‘Its history is one of denial and subterfuge, as you can imagine given its importance not only to New York City today but in the war effort during the 1940’s.

http://outsidethecubicle.tumblr.com/post/66750149028/destroyed-and-abandoned-fdrs-secret-armored#notes

your EPA at work, they cleaned up this Acid Lake in Ogden Utah

Abandoned automobiles and other debris clutter an acid water and oil filled five acre pond near Ogden, Utah, in April of 1974. It was cleaned up under EPA supervision to prevent possible contamination of the Great Salt Lake and a wildlife refuge nearby. (Bruce McAllister/NARA)

found on http://pixtale.net/2013/07/america-in-the-1970s-the-southwest/