Google Earth Contest #37

FriscoCharlie Sep 27, 2007

  1. FriscoCharlie

    FriscoCharlie Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    [​IMG]

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    Yes, this is a railroad location.
     
  2. HarryII

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    Donner Pass, old track
     
  3. FriscoCharlie

    FriscoCharlie Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Sorry, incorrect.

    Charlie
     
  4. HarryII

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    :tb-wacky:
     
  5. Curn

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    Terraced Hills. Blue Metal Roofs. Mountain Roads.

    I would guess Peru. They also seem to drive on the same side of the road as us Americans. The shadows seem to point towards a more northern local though. Good Hunting. I'll look when I get home in 5 hours.
     
  6. Hytec

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    Wait a minute...didn't EdM show us this place (although from a different angle) on his camping trip this past March?

    BTW Charlie, these are great fun, especially seeing Scott and Russ battle for "who's on first". :tb-tongue:
     
  7. FriscoCharlie

    FriscoCharlie Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    If Ed's been camping at this place, I will be surprised.

    Charlie
     
  8. SteamDonkey74

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    The Peru guess curn put forward seems like a good one. Peru is mountainous, and some of this land appears terraced for farming, much like in Peru.
     
  9. r_i_straw

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    Where is Hemi? This one seems to have a tunnel.
     
  10. Scott Stutzman

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    This is a tough one! Must be a pretty wide east/west mountian range....:confused2:
     
  11. r_i_straw

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    Quite arid. North of the Tropic of Cancer. Similar terrain features found in the Pyrenees Mountains in Spain, in Mongolia, China and many places where there are no railroads. Go ahead and take this one Scott. [​IMG]
     
  12. FriscoCharlie

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    BTW, this was a user-submitted location. I would not have found it by the normal method.

    Charlie
     
  13. FriscoCharlie

    FriscoCharlie Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    152 views.

    I sure wish you guys would pull it together. I've got a bunch of good ones in the hopper here.

    Okay, hint time I guess if it's too hard for you.... this is not in North or South America.

    Charlie
     
  14. SteamDonkey74

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    It's kind of fun when they go long enough that I get to see them before they are solved.

    I would say it's probably not Antarctica, either. That just leaves the other four continents to consider.
     
  15. r_i_straw

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    I have checked out the Pyrenees Mountains in such detail I can now speak Basque. I know now many sheep there are but still no luck. I think I will go look at sheep in Turkey or maybe Azerbaijan.
     
  16. SteamDonkey74

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    Euskara Earth Contest

    Since Russell now speaks Basque...

    Nora doa tren hau?


    I'l let him translate.
     
  17. SteamDonkey74

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    I am now thinking Mediterranean location but I am probably wrong.

    It doesn't appear to be Sicily.
     
  18. SteamDonkey74

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    I had this idea to check the "mountains of Syria," having forgotten, of course, that Syria is almost entirely mountainous.

    Those green thingies that seem to run along the contours keep bugging me. I want to say they are agricultural... perhaps grape vines. I probably shouldn't be bothering with Syria if there are vineyards in the photos.

    Let me see... countries with wine industries that also have arid conditions but that are not N. or S. American... maybe Italy, Greece, Australia... Israel?... South Africa?... who else has a wine industry? I am guessing that most Muslim majority countries do NOT.
     
  19. r_i_straw

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    Barkatu, baina sarrera hau ez dago hiztegian.
     
  20. fitz

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    Is this that serpentine mountain climb in Darjeeling?
     

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