With the shortness of that wye, I am thinking narrow gauge, but it's NOT Sumpter Valley. Also, it looks like there's a lot of coal lying around, so maybe we're talking steam operation. Perhaps this is one of the Colorado narrow gauge lines.
Is the black stuff from the first photo coal? I figured it was whatever rock is under the sand, exposed by humans chipping away at it. For myself, I'd noted: the shadows look wrong for Northern Half, so it's either Australia, southern africa, or he's flipped google earth upside down before taking the screenshot desert. yeah. Reminds me of western .usa most all of those buildings look abandoned, with no roofs, indicating this is a Ghost Town, again indicating western .usa
I've been know to do that before and why I don't show the compass until later in the hunt so it keeps you guessing. So, did I do it this time or not... :tb-wink: :tb-wink: :tb-wink:
Well... I've been checking out some of the narrow gauge lines outside of Colorado. Haven't found it. Checked out parts of Mexico and California... more that I can do there. I also went checking the mining operations in northwestern Australia and did not find it, though I found in many of these places similar landscapes.
Been checking out parts of Arizona, Texas, Utah, and New Mexico, too. It looks like there is an engine facility of some sort. I don't think the "ruins" are actually ruins but some sort of pens or storage facilities, especially in contrast to some of the roofed buildings around. Do I know what is kept in these pens? No. Maybe livestock, but that seems kind of unlikely since there is virtually no pasture.
Before the last photo I wandered across California (not the right type of mountain ridge; the ones in the photo look more like earthquake faulting; most of the Californian ones were water-eroded); Oregon (wrong colour ground), Peru (too many mountains, but a few promising matches) and bits of Australia. The real world intruded before I finished with West Island; so I may go back. Nice to see our tormentor admits he's rotated the maps before I don't like the pens theory; I suspect the roofed buildings are later additions. If I remember my Ghost Town stories rightly, the roof is one of the first things to go, then the walls crumble; thus Hypothesis: boring sand, no one around pioneers find $mineral and set up a thriving town, fed by that railway $mineral is mined out, pioneers move away town dies, all existing buildings lose roofs and decay a lot railway revives for some reason, more buildings are added 10-50-100 years after those pens And this explains everything nicely.. almost too nicely. Latest photo shows North. Woohoo! I was still wrong by 90 degrees! ----- Another (needs practise) GEC Admirer
Found It! .. Or, I know nothing about ecology and the progress of man Oh, yeah, found it! 18 deg 10 minutes 28.23 seconds South 69 degrees 44 minutes 42.44 seconds West Nearest pointer in Google Earth is Puquios, country Chile; or perhaps Pampa Ossa, quite some way closer to the coast. Edit: Can be found on Google Maps Zooming right in, I still can't see what the buildings are/were for!?
WINNER!!!!!!! Congratulations! Another ATSF Admirer Puquios, Chile Location submitted by Stourbridge Lion's Wife!!!!!!!
You might even notice that between clues it might be rotated to other angles yet... :tb-wink: :tb-wink: :tb-wink:
