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