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@Stratman50th,
I put together some slides and in the process realized something important.
First when you look at the area behind loop 700 in Google Maps, it doesn't tell you but the image shown (at least for me) turns out to be from Nov 2018 (no new TCD barn across the road). The "field" in question is circled in blue in this pic.
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I have not been in those woods any more recently. The box(es) in question are in this zoomed in pic which shows the upper right inside corner of the blue circle more closely. They are also circled blue.
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The railroad bed and the dog area between 700 and 800 are outlined in this pic.
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The orange line is the dog walk area single line. As I said, originally the orange line led to the green line with the original "Settlement Train Depot" as the green dot just before loop 400 entrance. When River Country was built, Disney built the red line, abandoned the green line, and moved the "Settlement Train Depot" to the left where I put the red dot. Closer to drop RC guests off to RC.
I walked the red line and saw the box(es) off to the left (above) which were down a slope about 3-5 vertical feet to the natural elevation of that field (train tracks were generally level all throughout the Fort - generally so the red line probably had fill brought in to raise it up to the orange/green elevation when it was constructed).
But now with the new TCD area across the road, who KNOWS what's left in that field. Here is a grab from Google Earth with the approximate location of the box(es) circled in blue. This (Feb 2024) is the most current picture currently in Google Earth of the area.
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The box(es) may be gone.
The new TCD barn appears to have taken a chunk out out of the red line branch of the railroad as well.
What's REALLY interesting is to take that circled field in the first pic and find the matching photo in Google Earth from Nov 2018 and then click "backwards" in time. That "field" has been a forest, blow down area, thick with vegetation and trees, and somewhat barren.
I'll have to check this area out again when I'm at the Fort in November. Honestly, I did not think that the TCD buildout would have infringed that far into the "field" to where the box location was/is.
I'm glad
@BaymaxFan78 brought this subject up. They may be there sooner and could give us the new readout.
Bama Ed
PS - and that "field" from 2018 looks in the 2024 pic like it's filled in, bushed out, and grown up a lot, doesn't it?
PPS - clicking backwards in time with Google Earth is fun - you can learn a lot. For instance, I know where 10 of the 12 fiberglass submarines from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (classic old Fantasyland ride from MK) are kept (the other two are stored somewhere prolly in an Imagineering warehouse and pulled out occasionally for events like the Disney Marathon [I ran past one on a flat bed truck when I did the 2017 Full Marathon]).