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Two Trains Come Out of Thin Air! (w/ photo)

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Two Trains Come Out of Thin Air! (w/ photo)
Posted by K. P. Harrier on Saturday, August 1, 2009 9:01 AM

Two trains appear to come out of thin air!  See it for yourself at the following MapQuest link ...

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Colton&state=CA&country=US&latitude=34.073898&longitude=-117.312798&geocode=CITY#a/maps/l:::Colton:CA::US:34.073898:-117.312798:city::1/m:hyb:14:34.062659:-117.308773:0:::::1:1:1::/io:0:::::f:EN:M:/e

(Enlarge the above to full scale [+] on photo left.)

The location is Colton, California, on Union Pacific's Sunset Route.  The overpass on the left is Mt. Vernon Ave. by I-10.

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Posted by zardoz on Saturday, August 1, 2009 9:13 AM

It could be:

a. The Klingons are using their transporter to acquire some badly needed suppiles.

b. These are "stealth" freight cars that FEMA is experimenting with (see how the end of one car that is vanishing looks to be a white boxcar).

c. You have uncovered a portal into another dimension of both sight and sound; you're next stop: The Twilight Zone.

d. It is a stitched together image made from multiple exposures (due to cloud cover, bad exposure, etc.

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Posted by MikeF90 on Saturday, August 1, 2009 8:21 PM
zardoz
It could be:
e. The east portal of the new Colton undercrossing built by UP several years ago.
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Posted by CNW 6000 on Sunday, August 2, 2009 4:12 AM

MikeF90
zardoz
It could be:
e. The east portal of the new Colton undercrossing built by UP several years ago.

f.  What you're seeing is the curve out at the bottom of the loop.  The rest of the trains are actually above the camera as one is going uphill and the other is going downhill.

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 2, 2009 2:43 PM

It's a photo stitching problem. I've done countless photo panoramas (stiching together multiple photos to make one wide one) and have seen what can happen if you're not paying attention.

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Posted by espeefoamer on Sunday, August 2, 2009 3:47 PM
It could also be... The railroads are experimenting with a Klingon cloaking device.Alien
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