They're aqueducts. Didn't Timekeeper teach you anything? And Trevor....
The Barton Aquaduct on that list is ten minutes from where we live. It's very cool. And old. Watching it swing fully loaded with water is quite the sight.
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Cool Stuff Backstage as seen from Google
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The Barton Aquaduct on that list is ten minutes from where we live. It's very cool. And old. Watching it swing fully loaded with water is quite the sight.
I thought that a navigable water bridge over a road was pretty uncommon. Like a dozen or so in the US.
MGMBoy
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Fun fact! If you follow Maple Road to the end there is an area with lots of disturbed earth, this is where the 20k subs were buried in cargo containers. If you look at the image below you can actually see some ConEx boxes in various states of being buried.
MagicHappens1971
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What is this? I've been wondering. If this picture doesn't let you know what it is, its the in behind GMR show building and behind the HISTK playground.
Good points Rob. Forgot about that.
As a side note to the above-ground power poles. I think it is kinda funny how they pretty much exactly follow the property line. Instead of cutting through the woods like the power company might do. They keep it nice and neat Even though the route is longer that way. If you look to the north east of MK near where the property line bends around the lake, the power poles follow the same path.
Goofyernmost
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Looks like an alley to me! Is there something specific you are looking at, because I see nothing but pavement and utility units.
Looks to be just a backstage area that is surrounded on all side by onstage or buildings. Think of backstage Main Street but without the parking lot. Most likely backstage area to support the restaurants at the top right of the pic next to GMR
Here's a bigger zoom hopefully of the area you are talking about. There are two gates that block this area from on-stage guests, in the red ovals. Looks to be some storage sheds back there too. right to the right of the left fence in the pic below.
Another note I was thinking about too. The difference in WDI water bridges and the other ones around the world is that that WDI is trying to hide them like they do not even exist. So that you think that you are just traveling down a river, etc.
Except the one at MK. I'm sure the first time a guest saw boats going across in the early morning as they were driving under probably spit their coffee all over their windshield.
Nemo14
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Is that a footer I see?
Here's a cool shot from google earth from feb 2015 showing hat demolition from aerial view. Pretty cool.
Here's another feb 2015 aerial shot from google earth of the soarin construction area in EPCOT. I know that they now are vertical with steel and cranes but this still looks great.
Here's a zoom view of soarin construction feb 2015
Rob562
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The green is most likely a power substation for the area.
The white is likely a storage tank for the gas (propane?) used for the flame effects in GMR.
-Rob
PhotoDave219
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Which you should never try to do in person, as there's a giant, locked security gate just beyond the fire station. You cannot get back there.
A dozen or so in the US and a bunch all over Europe, UK, etc.
I was looking at it from an engineering perspective as the original statement I was commenting on was "The engineering involved here is really cool!".
When I think of something that is "uncommon" or "really cool" engineering, I think of things things that there are only one or two of, solve a complicated problem simply and required an expansion of our existing knowledge to create. The water bridges (or aqueducts or wheels as @marni1971 pointed out) are pretty hum drum from an engineering standpoint.
Now the Falkirk Wheel I posted a video of is really cool engineering.
Granted, you do not see them that often in the US making them physically uncommon, but a really cool engineering feat, not really.
P_Radden
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Had some spare time this morning. Here is a simple map of power lines, substations etc.. I know it's not complete, but this gives us a good idea of the WDW grid.
Blue Lines = Above Ground Power Lines
Red Lines = Power Lines coming in to WDW Property
Green Star = Generator Plant/Station
Orange Stars = Where Power is Transferred Underground
Purple Stars = Electrical Substations
Special note:
Pink Line = Looks Like they are removing these power lines from the south northward. You can see the poles, but no lines. You can also see where the poles were removed where my pink line ends.
There must be way more below ground than above ground. Anyone have anything to add to this map?
Blue Lines = Above Ground Power Lines
Red Lines = Power Lines coming in to WDW Property
Green Star = Generator Plant/Station
Orange Stars = Where Power is Transferred Underground
Purple Stars = Electrical Substations
Special note:
Pink Line = Looks Like they are removing these power lines from the south northward. You can see the poles, but no lines. You can also see where the poles were removed where my pink line ends.
There must be way more below ground than above ground. Anyone have anything to add to this map?
Haven't found it yet but would be cool to see pics or video of Liberty Belle being towed from Rivers of America past the steam train bridge, past the backstage bridge over the canal backstage of BTMRR and then out across Seven Seas and Bay Lake to the dry dock area at the north west corner of Bay Lake.
MGMBoy
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Very true. I meant if you followed it on Google Maps since you wouldn't be able to get to the previously mentioned fireworks bunkers either.