Don't you like it when the first image is from only about 200' off the ground... :tb-wink: :tb-wink: :tb-wink: :tb-wink:
It takes us hours-days after the fact to find one; but how long does it take for the host to find the photo in the first place? I mean, of all the 44-tonners in all the railways... otoh, I've already bookmarked one or two nice places I think would make for a good challenge to find Shadows go down, which suggests rotated picture - how many countries use such tiny locos outside the .usa? the photo is fairly "washed out" dirt-works to the left, but could mean almost anything at this zoom level what the heck is that down to the right? a carpark or a very weird crop?
My first thought was "water" maybe a pond for cooling, holding or settling? If cooling or holding we could be looking for a power plant. If settling it could be a saltworks or wastewater treatment plant. Put thats just a guess so far.
That dark thing at the lower right is most likely water. The unnatural edges could be due to it having either been artificially created (the pond, that is) or altered to fit a grid system, such as what most of the settled U.S. is built upon with townships, sections, subsections, etc. Now, most farms don't use centercabs for anything, so I am thinking industrial something or other, perhaps some sort of mining operation. I can't see why anyone would lump that much dirt up without mining something. The pond may be full of contaminated water awaiting treatment. Just a guess.
The last one Darren put up turned out to be sort of in my backyard, and I even MISSED it when I went searching for it. I get the sneaking feeling that this one is in the Pacific Northwest, too, but I have no grounds for that. Adam
I keep thinking that's a Whitcomb and not a GE. The only reason this matters is because there are very few Whitcombs yet extant, so it would narrow the search down to a short list of places to look... that is, if you know where the switchers are.
WOW, GEC #B017 and GE Contest #I005 both are solved only minutes apart, is GEC #A011 (Advanced) soon to be solved next... :tb-confused: :tb-confused: :tb-confused: :tb-confused:
Well... I have checked several coal fired power plants in some particular country known only to me but haven't found it, yet.
