Visit the skeletal remains of the cold war

[Civil Guard]

http://triggur.org/silo/site.html

[Paddy51]

http://triggur.org/silo/site.html

Had browse around the site. Really fascinating and interesting. Strange that the site should have been left in such a dangerous state.

[Civil Guard]

yea pretty amassing a multi million dollar complex left to rotten like that.
and i read some were that it was only in service for a few years!?

[scottyboy]

Very interesting, thanks for posting.

[beNder]

Interesting. All that steel, concrete and other expense for two years of operation.

[Kilgor]

Location: ?
Missile type: Titan I
Missile count: 3
Missile speed: 18,000 MPH
Missile burns: 1 ton fuel/sec
Silo doors: 2x116 tons
Fuel storage: 26,000 gals/silo LOX
Active during: 1963-1965
Feet of tunnel: 2000
Feet of wire: 3 million
Miles of re-bar: 2400
Tons of concrete: 405,000
Tons of structural steel: 6,900
yards^3 of dirt displaced: 800,000
Water tanks: 2x30,000 gallons
Diesel tanks: 2x67,000 gallons
Generators: 4x1 megawatt
Capacity: 150 people/30 days
Total depth: 165 feet


2 years.. dang.

[oregongrunt]

Fascinating stuff, I wish I could explore it.

[Masai]

Fascinating stuff, I wish I could explore it.

the comment made that there is no life down there, not even rats, worries me :-(

[StuRat]

I wish I could go and look, those sorts of places fascinate me :)

[Civil Guard]

[quote=Kilgor;2792003]Location: ?
Missile type: Titan I
Missile count: 3
Missile speed: 18,000 MPH
Missile burns: 1 ton fuel/sec
Silo doors: 2x116 tons
Fuel storage: 26,000 gals/silo LOX
Active during: 1963-1965
Feet of tunnel: 2000
Feet of wire: 3 million
Miles of re-bar: 2400
Tons of concrete: 405,000
Tons of structural steel: 6,900
yards^3 of dirt displaced: 800,000
Water tanks: 2x30,000 gallons
Diesel tanks: 2x67,000 gallons
Generators: 4x1 megawatt
Capacity: 150 people/30 days
Total depth: 165 feet


Very impressive numbers Thanks for the tip!

[BlitzCod]

No rats or any life.. If you go, remember nut cups made of lead and tinfoils could be useful too. So short time of use? Mayby there has been an accident or something. Or not. But that there is no life in there kind of says to keep your nuts away. :-)

[CLONE]

i lived in roswell in the early 60's. my dad worked on the 12 Atlas silos that ringed the city. they would actually have parades thru town to show off the missiles as they were taken to arm the silos. they were decommissioned sumtime around 67-68. (your tax dollars hard at work!). there were rumours that after gutting, they would be auctioned off. i don't think that ever happened. sum of these site can be located on google earth.
i was also a CAP cadet there and helped man Walker AFB during the Cuban missile crisis. but that's another thread.

[Paddy51]

i lived in roswell in the early 60's. my dad worked on the 12 Atlas silos that ringed the city. they would actually have parades thru town to show off the missiles as they were taken to arm the silos. they were decommissioned sumtime around 67-68. (your tax dollars hard at work!). there were rumours that after gutting, they would be auctioned off. i don't think that ever happened. sum of these site can be located on google earth.
i was also a CAP cadet there and helped man Walker AFB during the Cuban missile crisis. but that's another thread.

Fascinating. Are any of those old silos etc. preserved as museums? Here in Scotland there is a cold was command bunker that was sold to a company that runs it as a museum. Not been yet but it is on my list of "must dos".
:)

[CLONE]

Atlas sites, hi-rez, lots of detail.
F10:
33° 22' 21.11" N
104° 52' 59.60" W
F11:
33° 35' 58.71" N
104° 34' 33.56" W

[James]

In New York you can buy old silos to live in. Pretty cool. I might consider that if it wasn't in NY.

http://www.silohome.com/

NY's Adirondack State Park - During the late 1950's and early 1960's when the Cold War was escalating, the U.S. government built hundreds of Atlas-F missile silos (each for 18 million in 1961, with the rising cost of construction today one could barely fund the excavation.) to prepare the country for an attack that never came. Today, most of these silos lie abandoned and filled with water, monuments to a bygone era of American historyand left to waste. But now, thanks to two entrepreneurial cousins, Bruce Francisco and Gregory Gibbons, one of these silos located in beautiful Adirondack State Park near Lake Placid is finding new life as a luxury home safe haven getaway complex accessible by plane or car. The real estate includes 20 acres of land with approximately 78 acres available as 10 approved building lots. The home is conveniently located to Montreal, Lake Placid and Plattsburgh and boast such outstanding year round activities as golfing, hunting, fishing, boating, hiking and world class skiing.

Surely it is the most unique real estate property you could own with the ultimate level of security and privacy. The silohome sits on 105 acres of manicured grounds, forest and trails. On the surface it features a hangar and spacious open living room with a fireplace and a wrap around porch. Below ground in what was once the launch control center, now is a two level, 3 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath with an open living area and kitchen adjoined by a spiral staircase. Star war like doors open to a large tunnel that accesses the silo.

[2Sheds_Jackson]

I'm not an expert on the subject - but I do know that you can find old silo locations all over google earth. Most were decommissioned due to arms control agreements, and most had to be destroyed so the Russians could verify with their satellites. There are some museums, and there are a few in private hands (I remember reading a story of one family that lives in one).

[lightfire]

I'm not an expert on the subject - but I do know that you can find old silo locations all over google earth. Most were decommissioned due to arms control agreements, and most had to be destroyed so the Russians could verify with their satellites. There are some museums, and there are a few in private hands (I remember reading a story of one family that lives in one).

You are right, and not only on American side. In Lithuania for example there are plenty of places, where soviet SS-4s, SS-20s medium range missiles were kept under ground, trees. Most of them are abbandoned, however in one the museum of militarism is established. Karmelava, Ploksciai and Sateikiai silos were quite impresive, from last one, Sateikiu base, missiles were secrectly transported to Cuba in famous 1962.

The most facinating times were the begining of ninties, when russians withdrawed and people moved in to look at those monster complexes. Nearly all worthy metal, and other left equipment/material that could be carrier were stripped down and carried away, however not everything could have been touched. Some bases were overtaken by our military.

There had been jokes in the millitary and rumours in some villages, that leaving russians have sold few tactical nukes for vodka, or forgot to take them out, thus our armed forces kept those nukes safelly in on of the bases under heavy guard. Surelly that isn't true, we do not have any WMDs p-)...

Today those bases are mostly abbandoned and visited by some diggers or stranglers, but still are impressive sites to visit.

[zonk]

living in a silo would be cool, never have to worry about heating or a/c because the ground temp would control that...i believe in wisconsin at cave of the mounds the cave kept a constant temp of 57 degrees f year round

[GIJOEJK]

Fascinating stuff, I wish I could explore it.

A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I had some friends in Chico California. One hot August night we went out to explore this place....
http://www.chicobeat.com/?q=ground_zero
...It was UNREAL.....

[The Duke]

A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I had some friends in Chico California. One hot August night we went out to explore this place....
http://www.chicobeat.com/?q=ground_zero
...It was UNREAL.....

I've always wanted to take a drive up there and explore that place myself.