Dang, just flicked on the tv, and the Discovery Channel has a program on, "Mysteries of the Abandoned" S2, Ep3. The Canfranc Station on the border of France/Spain. It's the biggest, most beautiful train station and grounds I've ever seen!! It's amazing!! But it's totally deserted now, totally abandoned. https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/11/the-abandoned-canfranc-railway-station.html
The show I was watching said it was closed for almost 40+ years, only recently there is interest in it.
BTW this depot is not fully abandonned : the railroad still operates on its spanish side, with a few moves to and from Zarragoza every day. But the line to/from France has been withdrawn from use for nearly 50 years after a mud slide that wipped a bridge off. And afterwards, owing to its deep preference to highway, French gov't took the opportunity to broaden the neighbouring road biting on railroad's ROW, thus making it now very difficult to rebuild. There are some talks about this some time to time but no one should expect to see this line living again. But all this doesn't explain this airport concourse sized depot in the middle of nowhere, I do agree. The above picture shows a spanish railcar, rolling on spanish railroad system's broad gauge track (1.672 meter, I don't know how it relates to US measurement system.. ). Dom
Five foot 5.8" Never heard of it. Usually one system or the other produces a round number. Leave it to the French...
I finally saw the episode and it's indeed pretty interesting. If others are seeking it, the name of the episode is Arctic Hell Pit, as for another segment featuring a Russian deep drilling project.