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Stourbridge Lion Mar 6, 2008

  1. Stourbridge Lion

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    <scratch head>
    Small town, but dense - houses close together.
    Shiny metal half-round roof on the barn/shed type thing to the right. Does anywhere outside .au/.nz/Quanson Huts do half-round roofs?
    A wye
    Brown dirt, ploughed fields implying a harvested crop - but no circles; so either she's not Kansas, or being this close to the tracks upsets the circles :)

    Good luck!
     
  3. Stourbridge Lion

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    Hint #1

    "Gee, Toto, I don't think we are in Kansas anymore..."​

    :tb-wink: :tb-wink: :tb-wink: :tb-wink:​
     
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  4. HemiAdda2d

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    Wyes like tha don't usually exis on flatlands. That would either be a junction, or a ruling grade summit. The houes atop this summitare kinda funny, though. It doesn't seem to be a junction, so.......
     
  5. Hytec

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    The general feel of the scene looks like central or eastern Europe. The fields display contour plowing with light-weight equipment, which would support that feeling.
     
  6. Stourbridge Lion

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    :zip::zip::zip::zip:​
     
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  7. Keith

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    And unless my eyes are really that bad, it also looks like NO track to be seen on grade?
    Right leg of wye looks to have weeds/small trees growing where track is, or was.
    Grade also looks like it ends real quick, right about where points would be on right side of wye.

    No idea, yet. Or time.
     
  8. Stourbridge Lion

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    Clue #1

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  9. Hytec

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    Blast, I believe I know what country this is in, but I don't know the topography or rail lines well enough to narrow it down to a specific location.
     
  10. Scott Stutzman

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    I have noticed the wyes are pretty common at the end of branch lines in Australia. It could be there..... I think I'm going to sit back and watch this one.:D
     
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    Naah, too much green for West Island (and most of their branches are Mining in that Great Sandy Desert thing they got)
    I note the right hand track off the wye curves quite sharply; either trying to climb up a mountain we can't see because it's a flat photo, or this really is a cheap/old/unimportant line that they haven't straightened. The field to the very right looks.. stepped - like it's a hillside.

    Poland. Everything else is in Poland, so why can't this be too ;)
     
  12. Hytec

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    I am thinking somewhere in the UK....nothing specific, but the agriculture, topography, and railline design lead me in that direction......?
     
  13. Stourbridge Lion

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    Clue #2

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  14. Scott Stutzman

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    Course I could be waaay off on my initial guess.:rolleyes: I know I was...... Wrong Continent.;)
     
  15. Stourbridge Lion

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    Well folks, the next Zoom Out image is not worth posting so that's the end of the clues on this one...

    Happy Hunting!!!!!!!

    :tb-confused: :tb-confused: :tb-confused: :tb-confused:
     
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  16. Stourbridge Lion

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    Hint #2

    Sorry Mate, it's not there either...

    :tb-wink: :tb-wink: :tb-wink: :tb-wink:
     
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  17. Scott Stutzman

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    Oh, I know it's not there. :tb-wink:
     
  18. Stourbridge Lion

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    Hint #3

    Heading -75.000000°
    :tb-rolleyes: :tb-rolleyes: :tb-rolleyes: :tb-rolleyes:
     
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  19. Scott Stutzman

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    It's not the end of a Branch Line either.:D
     
  20. SteamDonkey74

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    I didn't understand this heading business last time, either. My understanding of heading when it come to navigating over our globe, imagined as a sphere, involves a calculation involving coordinates from both a starting point (let's call it Lat A and Long A) and a destination point (let's call it Lat B and Long B).

    I think what you're talking about is a mathematical relationship between the number of degrees latitude and number of degrees longitude of a particular point on the globe, sort of like how I might remember a given phone number by coming up with a mathematical relationship between its individual digits, e.g., 369-2468 could be "3+6=9, multiples of 2 starting with 2."

    Back to the original topic, I have not found it, yet.
     

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