Does anyone know what the black triangular object is?
Quite possibly an environmental clean-up effort? The company I worked for had to remove and replace some ten feet of contaminated soil from about a five-acre site due to contamination. The location in your photo would possibly (likely*) be the site of locomotive oil fuel facility in steam days. The contamination may be leeching into water aquifers.
*Viewing several on-line photos of the UP roundhouse area in the 1940s and '50s indeed there is a cluster of vertical oil tanks at that location. The large coal wharf was at the concrete pad area near the rotary and the silver (baggage) tool car.
This "flyover" shows a lined retention pond at that spot [1:10] and before the pond (far left) is an excavator, a pile of earth and large plastic sheeting, a sure sign of potential "cleanup" operations.
Just a guess, mind you Regards, Ed
It does indeed seem to be a environmental pit of some short. You can tell by the concrete banks. In the video the content in the pit seems to be grayest blue so,it could be a "dirty" water cesspool..
Larry
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I'll go along with Ed and Larry, as far as a clean-up. It could also now serve as a rain water run-off detention pond, much like what you see at just about all new developments now, industrial or residential.
Mike.
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Looked like an access hole in the benchwork to me.
maxman Looked like an access hole in the benchwork to me.
Even I'm not that skinny.
Brent
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BATMAN maxman Looked like an access hole in the benchwork to me. Even I'm not that skinny.
Who knows, this could be an O scale layout! You only have to be half as skinny to get through one if it's that scale!
Regards, Isaac
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OT DeanThis site needs a "Thumbs Up Button,"
There is a group of five stars near the top-right of the page but I have no idea what their function is. Sometimes they're gold, sometimes not.
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Cheers, Ed
OT DeanThis site needs a "Thumbs Up Button,
There's always been this:
Ed, now your seeing stars? OK, now I know why, your post was at 2:00 am, I get it......
gmpullmanThere is a group of five stars near the top-right of the page but I have no idea what their function is. Sometimes they're gold, sometimes not.
It's sort of topic rating system. If you click on the stars (1 to 5 if you will), that indicates if the topic and posts are to your liking (5), or if you think it's full of feldercarb (1).