Google Earth Contest #7

[E-8]

Get a hot cup of coffee and fire up the brain. Here we go...

http://www.trainboard.com/contest/contest7a.jpg

http://www.trainboard.com/contest/contest7b.jpg

This one might keep you boys busy for a while.

[E-8]

http://www.comics.com/wash/pickles/archive/images/pickles2007080130935.gif

[E-8]

Pretty quiet today. Got you fellows stumped I see.

Charlie

[NSseeker]

Does anybody have ANYTHING? This one is tougher.
Any hints, Charlie?

[jagged ben]

Northern hemisphere.

That's a small autorack loading facility at lower left of the first photo. Looks like closed autoracks, which points to USA. The man made features generally seem consistent with America.

From the winding waterways in the second photo, I'm inclined to guess somewhere relatively close to the Gulf Coast...

[r_i_straw]

I poked around Baton Rouge, Louisiana a little. Lot of meandering water ways and stands of trees but no match.

[SLSF Freak]

Gut's telling me somewhere around Kentucky or Tennessee but I'm truly stumpped at the moment...

-Mike

[Steve F]

Gut's telling me somewhere around Kentucky or Tennessee but I'm truly stumpped at the moment...

-Mike

Yeah, I got some "pretty similar" from both states and Canada and some southeastern states as well ?????
OK, major North/South & East/ West freeway interchange with a very interesting (unique?) intersection north of the cloverleaf.
Good size Industrial Park. Meandering East West rivulet.
Golf Course. Fairly substantial population. Am I seeing pools in those bark yards? Intact Flora around developed areas. Looks like lots of trucking operations and some trains. I think the autos are driving on the right side aren't they? hmmmmm.

[piston_8]

I got close for freeway in St. Paul

[E-8]

Hint: North America, Eastern Time Zone

[Esky]

Somewhere in Virginia perhaps? (just a guess going by those dang cloverleaf exit ramps.)

[r_i_straw]

Somewhere in Virginia perhaps? (just a guess going by those dang cloverleaf exit ramps.)I pretty much searched the tidelands and farther in following the CSX and NS all over the area and did not find a match.

[E-8]

Ok, final hint and we won't give out the little award badge after two hints have been given so bummer there....

North America
Eastern Time Zone
Capital CityCharlie

[SteamDonkey74]

It's kind of telling that we can't figure it out easily. So many of our landscapes look so alike in the U.S.

[Curn]

Quebec City - Canada
Capital of Quebec

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Quebec++Canada&ie=UTF8&ll=46.793273,-71.332726&spn=0.021272,0.040169&t=k&z=15&iwloc=addr&om=1

[E-8]

Congratulations curn

Quebec City, Quebec

http://www.trainboard.com/contest/contest7c.jpg

[Sagelake]

I'm giving up on the U.S. going to try Canada! (I posted this before refreshing...way to go Curn)

Chuck