City Estate Living...London's buried excavators

[mark02tj]

.... Places like salt mines and the big tunnel boring equipment usually is wore out much faster so leaving them in place is no big deal, scrap value is about all that is lost. ....

If I remember correctly, from a History Channel show, when they dug the "Chunnel" under the English Channel they left one of the tunnel boring machines down there. Right before the English side and the French side were supposed to meet, they angled one of them down sharply and just left it in it's own tunnel.

This whole London story reminds me of a book they read to us when I was a kid - "Mike Milligan and His Steam Shovel".

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^ I was thinking of that same story, but would never have been able to find it.

 

[FTG-05]

If I remember correctly, from a History Channel show, when they dug the "Chunnel" under the English Channel they left one of the tunnel boring machines down there. Right before the English side and the French side were supposed to meet, they angled one of them down sharply and just left it in it's own tunnel.

This whole London story reminds me of a book they read to us when I was a kid - "Mike Milligan and His Steam Shovel".

That's not true. It was used by some robbers in Las Vegas a couple years ago, I saw the documentary on it. I forget what they stole, it was pretty complicated, I think they used a surplus EMP bomb too.......

 

[newbury]

Good fodder for a Doctor Who episode.