Difference between revisions of "2013-02-12 40 -74"

Revision as of 14:36, 13 February 2013

Location

Northern State Prison, Ironbound, Newark. Across I-78 from Newark Liberty Airport.

Participants

Jevanyn, along with about a thousand unknowing commuters.

Plans

Jevanyn will attempt to get a picture from the train. (Geohash itself is inaccessible.)

Expedition

Well, there is no way to get into the prison (I'm not Batman), but I should have line of sight from the train on my commute home. I'll be within a mile to the west. (Closer train tracks are freight.) -- Jevanyn 10:24, 12 February 2013 (EST)

Granted, I didn't go anywhere I wouldn't have normally been, but I did attempt to get a photograph of the area of the geohash, so there was a geohashing effort. Lame, I know, but it was interesting in as much as the geohash was 1) in the city where I was, and for which the graticule is named, and 2) it was close enough to my regularly traveled route, that I could potentially achieve line-of-sight to the "campus".

Tracklog

My "track" will be the Raritan Valley Line, thank you :-)

Photos

Looking eastward in the direction of the prison. @40.7234,-74.1711
Second picture, a bit closer. @40.7234,-74.1711
Inbound train passes in other direction, probably a Northeast Corridor train. I-78 overhead to the right. @40.7234,-74.1711

Achievements

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 == Plans ==
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 *Well, there is no way to get into the prison (I'm not Batman), but I should have line of sight from the train on my commute home. I'll be within a mile to the west. (Closer train tracks are freight.)  -- [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] 10:24, 12 February 2013 (EST)
+Granted, I didn't go anywhere I wouldn't have normally been, but I did attempt to get a photograph of the area of the geohash, so there was a geohashing effort.  Lame, I know, but it was interesting in as much as the geohash was 1) in the city where I was, and for which the graticule is named, and 2) it was close enough to my regularly traveled route, that I could potentially achieve line-of-sight to the "campus".
 == Tracklog ==
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