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Reply to "Yes, I am a Looper ** New Video 6/14/23 **"

SantaFeJim posted:

Can you guess what the black things are?

First person to get it right gets a hearty “You-Dah-Man” shout out.

Rich aka “RD” is excluded as I told him what this was yesterday.

 

Force Main, and the pipe that goes from one side to the other  under the tracks is called a carrier pipe. 

https://www.trenchlesspedia.co...tion/2696/force-main

Here is a link with an illustration under trackage, and Southern Pacific specification, the carrier pipe is identified.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=...7cfJeZcV9qYFBSwyvl6Q

Not exactly sure how this thing is piped, but suspect that the smaller pipe is vent piping per the following UPRR diagram:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=...7cfJeZcV9qYFBSwyvl6Q

Regards,

Jerry

 

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