Stand pipe

 

purple and yellow and greys

A water standpipe stands ready at the station.  Two yellow bollards protect it from direct contact.

 

 

 

Silver twist

 

Corrugated and twisted

 

Although it resembles a lozenge twist candy, or garganelli or torchietti pasta, or possibly a modern sculpture, this is a section of corrugated metal pipe (CMP) seen by the side of the railroad.   But more than that,  how was that cylinder twisted into a this shape?