Just guessing, but the Saudi photo might be from a satellite. They're
a secretive bunch and probably not too open to having aerial photos
taken.
Mike M
Downers Grove IL
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On Feb 4, 2010, at 9:44 PM, John wrote:
> Check N 26.42256 E 50.14231. That sure resembles the 5 unit Nebraska
> zephyr coupled to a Sauidi diesel. On a side note, I used the same
> site to look at IRM to see if their Nebraska zephyr was outside,
> which it wasn't, but the resolution is so much better here in the
> states that it is in Saudi Arabia. Zooms in closer too. I wonder why
> that is?
>
> John.
>
> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "John" <onequiknova@...> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not too sure what your looking at, but that sure looks like a
>> Budd obsevation sitting among more modern passenger cars at
>> N26.42285 E50.14002. I'm going to poke around on that site for a bit.
>>
>> John.
>>
>> --- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Randy Gordon-Gilmore <zephyr9900@> wrote:
>>>
>>> No, not *a* watch (as in tick-tick-tick-tick) but an update on the
>>> supposed
>>> 1936 Denver Zephyr cars in Ad Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
>>>
>>> The previous Googlemaps imagery that we all viewed last summer was
>>> from
>>> 2006. Googlemaps has updated their imagery to 2010 (at least,
>>> that's what
>>> the superimposed copyright bug says...)
>>>
>>> There has been some redevelopment to the railyards in Ad Dammam.
>>> It looks
>>> like there is some major expansion going on. The cars that I am
>>> imagining
>>> are the 1936 DZ cars appear to have been moved a little west from
>>> their
>>> previous location:
>>>
>>> http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=26.42695,50.12688&z=19&t=S
>>>
>>> Randy
>>>
>>> --
>>> Randy Gordon-Gilmore
>>> Rio Vista, CA, USA
>>> http://www.prototrains.com
>>> zephyr9900@
>>>
>>
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