Found it!!!!!!!!! Ok.....I've got it!! No seriously, I don't have a clue where this place is at. For some reason, "Mediterranean area" is calling my name. It just has that "feel" to me. But, I'm probably wrong. Based on the picture, I'm sensing the track running in a north-south orientation? There seems to be plenty of vehicles around, mainly white, so I'm sensing a warm/hot climate. The foliage is green so I'm guessing enough natural rainfall in the region to suggest it's not in the desert. However the terracotta/stone roofs suggest to me a spanish/italian/greek influence? Maybe Darren will be kind enough to let me know if my thoughts are on the right track! (pun intended)
Not at this level, outside of the Google Earth clues presented, you are on your own... :tb-ooh: :tb-ooh: :tb-ooh: :tb-ooh:
<shrug> Too hard for me. Without more clues or detail, I'm left with an exhaustive search (Brute Force), and I just don't have that much free time. .. But I might still have a look around on weekends when I'm bored Good luck guys!
Scott Special 10 Days and counting since this one got started... :tb-wink: :tb-wink: :tb-wink: :tb-wink:
I only ever beat Scott on the Scott Stutzman Special... and maybe on the one where I found it was Windhoek, Namibia, but I'm not sure he was even looking.
Against my own better judgement, I've just trolled all around Western Greece; "Dytiki Ellada" and "Peloponnisos": Everything west of the canal at Loutraki-Perachora. People who build swimming pools near the train tracks are mean. Still no sign of the target, although a couple of places that have the right sorts of trees. Scanning the whole of Greece at an "eye altitude" of 1.1-1.5 km (making the scale on the left 300-450m) will take far far too long. Apparently I can transverse 300 linear miles in an hour. At that speed I should be able to canvas the whole area... sometime this year? Good luck guys!
I'll tell you what, if this location is not found over the weekend I will post another clue on either Sunday or Monday night that will reduce the search area even deeper. :tb-ooh: :tb-ooh: :tb-ooh: :tb-ooh:
I've trolled around Greece, parts of Italy, Turkey and many other countries I can't pronounce properly :tb-embarrassed: Ironically, the area that appeared the most promising doesn't even HAVE a railroad on the entire island!! Cyprus, BTW. I guess for us to get another clue, we all have to turn off our computers all weekend and not look :tb-biggrin: Well, onto the search....again..... Oh, for those that haven't upgraded yet, Google Earth Beta 4.3 is AWESOME!
Or we collaborate to avoid everyone searching the same area repeatedly. Admittedly this gives the other players an advantage; but it does take the advantage off the maniacal guy running this show I, for one, can't turn my PC off for the weekend - I need it to help me calculate a helix Since I've finished my staging yard, I'll need something on the layout to work on that's not Google Earth
Another Clue I've had a change of heart, the next clue will be coming sometime in the next 24 hours... :tb-rolleyes: :tb-rolleyes: :tb-rolleyes: :tb-rolleyes:
So, has anyone seen the Pope in person?? If not, travel to this train station inside the Vatican City and you just might :tb-biggrin: 41°54'3.60"N 12°27'3.93"E
I just checked my photo album, and the only train-related photo I have from Roma is of a huge "Campari" poster in the main train station. Many pictures of St Peter's Basilica, the Aqueducts ("acquedotti"), even several of Papal Residences; but none of a Pope nor his Trainstation.
Winner!!!!!!! Congratulations! gvcborders Vatican City, Vatican Location submitted by Stourbridge Lion
Here is a picture I found of the actual building from Structurae - Internationale Datenbank für Brücken- und Ingenieurbau I thought it would be neat for everyone to see what we were actually searching for. :tb-biggrin:
I'm not worthy!!! The really embarrassing thing is that I have been to Il Vaticano and I likely walked right by this building.
