Re: (erielack) What is it?

[bob gillis <robertgillis_@_verizon.net>]

Paul R. Tupaczewski wrote:
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> While waiting for an NJT train to photograph in my hometown of Boonton
> yesterday after work, I stumbled upon something I never noticed in my 20
> years of trainwatching at this location (see attached "DSC_8531") - it's a
> shorn-off steel pipe embedded in concrete on the side of the right-of-way.
> My first thought is that this was a water stand for steam locomotives, but
> it's an awfully small pipe for that. DSC_8532 shows where the pipe is in
> relation to the right-of-way - this view looks east along the former 4-track
> DL&W main. The pipe is at the bottom of the image.
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> Any thoughts?

How about the bottom of a light pole.

bob gillis

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