Re: (erielack) What is it?

[nemd27_@_speedpost.net]

Paul:

What is the diameter of this cut-off post?  I can't tell from the pix,
however if it's large enough, and given the concrete base, can this be
the remains of a long removed signal?

Henry





On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:45:17 -0400, "Paul R. Tupaczewski"
<paultup_@_comcast.net> said:
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> DSC_8532_resize.jpg (image/jpeg, 700x1053 182155 bytes, BF: 4.05 ppb)
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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.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 	- Paul
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