Train travelling across pink salt lake - GIF

Train travelling across Lake Burlinskoye in Russia.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...571#post212449
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...883#post179335
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...878#post186925
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...581#post219749
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...780#post213125

I assume they did a salt spray test for corrosion on all exposed parts?

wonder why they didn't elevate the track a few feet.
Also wonder the life expectancy of the equipment.

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Originally Posted by piper184

wonder why they didn't elevate the track a few feet.
Also wonder the life expectancy of the equipment.

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They mine the salt and load in on the trail cars, it doesn't say but I suspect the rails are mover periodically,
https://youtu.be/o6Hr2uRmczc

It looks like 5' gauge.

Apparently, the train is a salt harvester, dredging up salt from the lakebed. The more you know...

https://www.thedrive.com/news/39789/...ake-in-siberia

At 1:10 in the other video there is a Y in the tracks I wonder you does the switching? I do not see the cars being loaded as they are moving.

Hi Gang:

Here is more information on this salt lake in Siberian Russia:

https://siberiantimes.com/other/othe...ink-in-august/

Three eyed shrimp with 11 legs and they swim upside down ( to us??)

The salt would be hard on the tracks and the train parts that get wet. If you look at the locomotive, it seems to be a small diesel switcher mounted on top of a flat car. The track would be left loose on the salt bed and pushed where the best salt is.

Carl.