Ok, found a blue turntable...just not a TRUSS one. I've also found a yellow turntable, multiple rust/brown ones, two turntables together, one without any track going to it, but I haven't found THE turntable we all are looking for Searched most of Korea, still looking there though.......the southern islands of Japan (they've got way too much track!), lots of China...still more to go, and parts of Russia.
Yay! the red box is back! Nice to see you've only eliminated most of the places I've been looking, not all of them :tb-cute: On a more serious note - why are so many things in China painted BLUE?? . Red I could understand, but Blue? . Makes the search that much harder Alright, time to start push-pinning the new search area..
OK, my second Intermediate and first Advanced on succesive days. Whoo Hoo, I'm on a roll, but... talk about a needle in the proverbial haystack. Even trying to match colors isn't much help. Bob in IDaho
tee hee hee. That's because it's such a large target that the colours don't help as much Congrats on the intermediate and advanced wins. My vote for this one is still semi-west China. Otherwise a city. Nothing to do but wait to see how wrong I am! I count no less than SIX turntables in Xuzhou. None blue. I mean, seriously, why do they need so many? - the town I occupy, Hamilton, would be lucky to have one TT. but six??
Is that a hint? Or just some dancing smilie faces? Just to add to the humour of it, I've made my own pushpin tally: Not as much of China is marked as Scott's, so I've got a while to go... [size=-2]558 views[/size]
Gee, no pushpin picture here....haven't figured out how to put pics on here yet I've seen most of those so far pushed, but i haven't pinned the right one!! Time to keep searching. P.S. Wouldn't it be funny if Google updated the maps and it was now painted yellow or red or whatever other color we've all seen so far? NOT!!!!!!!!!
Mmm... #002 wasn't a real 'revenue' railroad; I wonder if he's doing that to us again? Maybe we should be looking at theme parks and tourist traps (do they have those in North-East Asia?)? All I know is that too much Google Earth hurts my eyes and makes for strange dreams. And I managed to get in a good game of Civilization IV yesterday by putting down the Google Earth Challenge And tuned my tortoise a little so it throws more evenly. Trying to match colour by using the overall tone of the satellite camera swath isn't going to work here either. For Example, the tiny town at 38°42'35.56"N 127°21'50.82"E, North Korea is in a 'green' photo, but if you zoom in to about the scale of the target, she's a pretty good colour match. So every little one-horse train stop needs checking. You know you're bored when.. you hunt down North Korea's nuclear reactor and stick a push pin in it! :tb-cute: Edit: 1100 posts and I never noticed! wow. Looking closely at North Korea, they don't have many trucks. Yet the target clearly has trucks standing around - maybe we should be looking more at South Korea and China and ignoring Kim Jong Il's little prison-state?
I'm glad I'm not the only one going crazy with this one! I think I'm on at least my third go round of this area. Except now, I've started with the pushpins...wish I would have thought about that before! I have noticed that in some of the "hills" of China, what looks to be low resolution turns out to be much better when you zoom in. Talk about adding a larger search area now. I kind of wish I hadn't noticed that. I've searched most of China, North Korea, southern Russia, and now I'm back in South Korea for the third time. I did think about the "non-revenue" aspect but I was focusing on museums and such, not amusement parks and the like. Guess I'll have to go back and look at those. On the museum idea, the South Korean Railroad museum is IN the Seoul station, so I'm thinking it's in there and we just can't see it! Ok solved now, let's go for another one! Time for another clue/hint I think.
Running a colour / pattern match (basically looking for white buildings below the tracks on something angled / - \; but never north - the shadows are wrong), it's not China in the top right of the picture, Dalian Jinzhou (low res) Liangjiadian or points right Pulandian Gaizhou Anshan (top of the map, low res) Panjin Jinzhou (low res) Qinhuangdao Not sure about Suizhong or Jinxi. I'm starting to think China is being used as a Red Herring. The last three zoom ins have sliced off more and more of China, and yet every one leaves the right edge of South Korea in the frame. I question North Korea; they're supposedly low on little ammenities like Electricity, Food and Fuel - so there wouldn't be so many trucks just standing around; except maybe in Pyongyang. But I might have mentioned this already. So, either Darren is being cunning in his particular torment and I'm falling for his bait; or it's Somewhere in South Korea. And now as I have work in about 7 hours, I should go log off - as fun as it is dancing to the whim of this sadistic man It's all in good fun, right?
Anyone like sushi?? Who would have thought that we would have to look on the tiniest of tiny slivers of land to find the turntable of all turntables, the elusive Blue Truss Turntable of GEC #E007. I've got it, marked and coordinates located. Wonder how close it is to one of the "original" ground zeros? I'll hold off on posting the location to see if anyone else gets it now that it's been narrowed down. :tb-biggrin:
The right Turn Table was been sent to me via a PM Yes; but what was the hint? :eh-cool::eh-cool::eh-cool::eh-goofy:
Oh! No Way! Congrats! I looked at Japan briefly, Guess I should have looked a little harder...:tb-sad: Oh yeah! It starts with an N.
"I'm starting to think China is being used as a Red Herring. The last three zoom ins have sliced off more and more of China, and yet every one leaves the right edge of South Korea in the frame." And Japan.......... Darn it!
