Google Earth Contest #28

[E-8]

http://www.trainboard.com/contest/contest28a.jpg

http://www.trainboard.com/contest/contest28b.jpg

[Flash Blackman]

Cuesta grade, SoCal near Big Sur.

[E-8]

Sorry Flash. You're in the running for the Rice-A-Roni though.

Charlie

[HemiAdda2d]

This ought to be a good stumper... ;)

[r_i_straw]

Looks a lot like the upper great planes like the Dakotas.

[SteamDonkey74]

I was thinking high desert such as eastern Washington, but I haven't found it, yet. Great Plains sounds more plausible now that you bring it up.

[firechief]

The fields seem to be laid out in the seigneurial system (long and narrow). To me this would suggest Quebec. With the mountains, I'd narrow it down to Gaspe Peninsula or the North Shore around Sept Isles.

Dave.

[jagged ben]

Shadows guys, shadows.

Looks to me like southern hemisphere.

[jagged ben]

Unless my eyes are playing tricks on me.
It looks a lot like Nevada. The mountains that is.
But Nevada's agriculture (what there is of it) is all those circular fields.

[jagged ben]

Dang, I have to give up.
My very unconfident guess is Bolivia.

[Scott Stutzman]

It's a pass West of I 80 in Montana. I found it,I just don't know what to call the place. The closest city I can see is Stanford, Montana

[Scott Stutzman]

South of Ole Coulee and southeast of Big Coulee. I really don't know how I found this! Is it old Milwaukee Road trackage?

[E-8]

Congratulations Scott Stutzman.

The location is near;

Denton, Montana

This location was submitted by HemiAdda2d. Perhaps he will give us some further insight about this area.

http://www.trainboard.com/contest/contest28c.jpg

[HemiAdda2d]

Correct, Scott. Great guess! It is former Milwaukee Road trackage, the North montana Line from Harlowton to Lewistown, Great Falls, and beyond. Pulled up in 1985, this part fo the branch from Lewistown to Geraldine is now operated by Central Montan Rail. For more info, check out the Charlie Russel Chew Choo dinner train that runs this route. It includes 3 massive steel trestles, a tunnel, and beautiful landscapes. The area I chose for the contest is Surprise Creek Canyon.

Great photos here:
http://www.trainweb.org/chris/rare20042.html

http://www.photosbystevenjbrown.com/crcc/cmr.html

http://www.trainweather.com/may242004.html

Roster here:
http://www.trainweb.org/rosters/CM.html

[LADiver]

Also the best source of Milwakee date nails I have found. Go down the road and I still find piles of ties. Search them out and find the small copper date nails of the Milwakee.

[Scott Stutzman]

Hemi,Great links! I thought you might have had something to do with this one.

[HemiAdda2d]

Guilty as charged...:)
I gotta ride the Chew Choo some day... I have followed the MILW thru Montana over Google Earth, and found all sorts of neat stuff.
I guess the MILW bug has bitten...

[jagged ben]

I had the feeling I wasn't seeing that relief correctly. Kept seeing a mountain range where it's really a valley. Those cuts really looked like fills.

btw, that's Montana state highway 80, not Interstate 80, for those who might be looking.

Congratulations Scott.