Arizona trip

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Thu Apr 12 19:20:21 2001

>If it's the one I'm thinking of it's an old Atlas (pre Titan) silo up near
>Plattsburgh New York. If it is the same one it's since been blasted due to
>the dangerous conditions of both being in it and the possibility of cave-in
>above. It should have been near the town of Saranac.

        I actually found the website again! The URL was still in the
bookmarks on my laptop (which NEVER gets cleaned off). Sometimes I'm
thankful for being such a packrat and being able to go back and find
4 year old emails <g>. Anyway, he's moved the site but it's still
active at:

        http://triggur.org/silo/

        He doesn't give any clear indicators as to where it's
located, but here's the statistics he does list:

        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

        All in all, I thought it was pretty interesting.

        Jeff
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