Pics Of Unlisted Marks

[+kc8hnz]

Ever been out benchmark hunting and find a mark that isn't listed but either its very unique or you just got an outstanding picture of it? Well, then this thread is for you! Post the pic and some info about your mark to make things a little more intresting. I'll start us off with a US Department of Interior BM I found a while back:

 

 

Found this one off of a USGS topo map, place on a railroad bridge passing over SR 303 in Beldon, Ohio. Turns out it was a USGS disk, just with a differnt marking.

[+kc8hnz]

Here's anouther one I found, its a Ohio DOT Right of Way Marker. This one is one of many running along SR 113 all on the south side. They were spaced maybe half a mile apart, and I counted maybe 8 of them that I noticed.

 

[+GEO*Trailblazer 1]

HERE'S ONE OF ABOUT 100 THAT I HAVE.

[+Colorado Papa]

HELP!!! What am I doing wrong? How do I upload a picture to this discussion? IMG asks for an http:// address.

Edited February 18, 2004 by Colorado Papa

[+jeff35080]

How do I upload a picture to this discussion? IMG asks for an http:// address.

 

You don't upload a pic here on the forum You have to host it on your own web space or upload to your gc.com account and link to it from there. Happy benchmarking!

[+California Bear]

Found this one off of a USGS topo map, place on a railroad bridge passing over SR 303 in Beldon, Ohio. Turns out it was a USGS disk, just with a differnt marking.

Wow! What a wierd juxtaposition of hobbies!

 

I play Microsoft's Train Simulator and someone created a shortline railroad called Canton that I was running trains on just last night. I am going to have to stop the train at all the bridges now and check to see if the creator put this benchmark disk on any of them.

[+mustanglx]

I found this one while I was in Oklahoma. I was out looking for BM's when I noticed the orange pole along the road.

 

 

[+1setter]

We found this one last weekend near where a normal benchmark should have been.

[+GEO*Trailblazer 1]

 

This one is in my front yard.

Guess I am lucky,This is the one that got me started and I still can't log it yet.

[+GEO*Trailblazer 1]

And it is from 2-5' always when checked with WAAS.

Normaly 000* @ 000'

[+Colorado Papa]

This may look like is should be posted somewhere else but since the subject of this discussion is Pics of Unlisted Marks, I'll show it here and challenge anyone to find this BM in geocaching.com database. AB0711 was declared DISTROYED in 1987!

 

 

This BM was located northwest of Harlingen, Texas on the abandoned Texas and New Orleans Railroad. This view is to the northwest with the BM on the left and Santa Rosa, Texas in the background.

 

Edited February 19, 2004 by Colorado Papa

[crafters]

Well, even though that benchmark's location is pretty obvious nearly every benchmark within about 100 foot of a railroad track here in GA is destroyed due to the constant work and constructions on tracks. The 2nd closest benchmark to us was practically within walking distance, but we suspect that it's now in a pushed-up pile of rubble down in the gulley next to the tracks. This may have been the reason it was listed destroyed... because so many of them are.