Have to agree with the others, cistern. Beautiful area. You do what I used to...examine Google Earth looking for anomalies and searching them out. Great job!!
Thank you, Francis! I have some tools to unearth history of location. USGS site is good recourse, but not universal. Old mines maps, libraries of universities may be useful as well. Research takes a lot of time, but really it's addicting)
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Hi Darina, I am leaning towards it being a Stem Engine water cistern. Railroad is nearby and the 1939 picture looks like it is full of water. It's up a slope so gravity fed to track area. I then read your guesses, I don't think a farm manure tank or silo as the 1939 photo pretty much rules that out. Some ruins of buildings even from 1890 or so would be visible 1n1939. Looks more like coal mining territory to me. Might be a wood pile nearby too. Would a train turntable have to be 10 or more feet deep and no sign of track near it either. Just a guess on what we see 1939 and today. Happy holidays, great 2024 too.😺😺🎅🎅
Hello, Tom! Totally agree! Reservoir for steam engine is the most probable. Before my visit, i had expected to find a turn table foundation, but this ring is located on a slight hill slope, so i had to refuse that version. Steam engine reservoir is the best idea!. Happy holidays to you too! 🙂😍
There was overgrown a railroad bed as well. Thank you! Happy holidays! For some reason, i chose this shortest day of year for a long hike. Just come back home after wandering in forest with flashlight.
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cool explore,,, just wondering, did you see any animal carcasses in that structure? If they fell down there, they would certainly have a hard time getting back out !
Remains of a water tank. Used for watering steam engines. A steam engine could on only travel about 100 mi/day max, and would have to stop frequently to fill up with water. There are remains of coaling stations and watering tanks all along railroad tracks. It's probably up hill from the tracks, and there's likely a steel pipe feeding it from a spring, and another steel pipe, maybe buried, running from it to the track. When a steam engine was stopped and taking on water, the crew would grease the bearings, so not surprising a grease gun was found nearby.
