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 Draconix12
 |  | Steam Tunnels in Missouri
< on 1/18/2006 2:45 AM >
|  | | | I'm going to be attending the University of Missouri in Columbia this fall, and I was wondering if anyone had any information about any tunnels beneath the campus, or if anyone knows of a website where I could find information, maybe a map? Thanks!
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AAExplorer
 
Location: Washington, DC
Gender: Male
| | Re: Steam Tunnels in Missouri
<Reply # 1 on 1/23/2006 3:39 PM >
|  | | | No maps I know of, but I would recommend that you look around basements of open buildings. Sometimes an unlocked door will present itself.
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Kent
Gender: Male
Team Asbestos from CoMo
| | Re: Steam Tunnels in Missouri
<Reply # 2 on 4/21/2006 5:37 PM >
| | | | There's a bunch of tunnels under MU, but most of the access is locked or filled in. The steam/maintenence tunnels are accessable through grates all over campus, but are padlocked for the most part. A friend and I are trying to get in them, and I'm confident that we'll find a way in soon.
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Black_Dog
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Steam Tunnels in Missouri
<Reply # 3 on 5/10/2006 3:21 AM >
| | | | I remember last year a bunch of my friends and I were all drunk and decided to go and try and find some tunnels. We found an entrance near Jesse Hall. It was padlocked though. We also found some grates on the walkway just west of, I don't remember what the name of the building is. Its on Hitt Street, big tall towers, you walk through the middle of them. Either way the grates were just west of the building on the walkway. I think we found a way in but there were like 13 of us and most of us could barely walk so we didn't go in.
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Kent
Gender: Male
Team Asbestos from CoMo
| | Re: Steam Tunnels in Missouri
<Reply # 4 on 5/11/2006 1:59 PM >
| | | | Yeah, the padlocked ones are a bitch, cuz we know they're right there but don't want to try bypassing the lock (it violates school policy, we could get expelled). We're waiting for some maintenance guy to leave a basement door open somewhere, as most of the older buildings have entrances in them somewhere.
The building on Hitt is Memorial Union.
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Slim Jim
   
Noble Donor
Location: St. Paul, MN
Gender: Male
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| | Re: Steam Tunnels in Missouri
<Reply # 5 on 5/11/2006 3:44 PM >
| | | | Posted by Kent
There's a bunch of tunnels under MU, but most of the access is locked or filled in. |
Would you be willing to mention what kind of tunnels they are? Are there systems other than steam tunnels?
Curious...
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Kent
Gender: Male
Team Asbestos from CoMo
| | Re: Steam Tunnels in Missouri
<Reply # 6 on 5/12/2006 2:59 AM >
| | | | Here's what we've discovered through research and... field testing (wink)
There are "steam" tunnels all over campus. Really they are maintenance tunnels, used by the facilities guys to get from one place to another. Most buildings on campus have offshoots connecting to them, into boiler rooms where the steam is channeled into the individual classrooms. Most access is either locked or false leads, like manholes leading into rooms with machinery but no tunnels. Of course, to the maintenance guys, these are no big deal, they get in these all the time when there's steam or electrical problems. We saw a picture of one in a facilities newsletter - big enough to stand in and well lit.
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Black_Dog
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Steam Tunnels in Missouri
<Reply # 7 on 5/14/2006 10:08 PM >
| | | | Posted by Kent
The building on Hitt is Memorial Union.
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That's it...I don't know how I didn't remember that. Like I said, the only things I know of are those grates there on the ground. That same night we tried to get to the roof of Jesse Hall via fire escape ladders. Unfortunately we couldn't get up to the second floor where the stairs for the fire escape started. Keep us posted on any results. I'd like to try and get into some stuff next time I'm in como.
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Gauge
Location: Near st. louis
Gender: Male
| | Re: Steam Tunnels in Missouri
<Reply # 8 on 5/22/2006 6:11 AM >
| | | | Check the basement of the dorms. Almost all the dorms have access to the steam tunnels. I lived in Laws and that tunnel was very short and used as a short cut to the dining hall. If you can get into the basement of almost any building on campus you can find access to a tunnel. Slip a building & grounds guy a few bucks to let you in if your really interested in one.
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Fett
 
Location: Columbia, Missouri
Gender: Male
| | Re: Steam Tunnels in Missouri
<Reply # 9 on 6/2/2006 5:12 AM >
| | | | There are indeed a bunch of tunnels under MU, some of the oldest and most fascinating are under the quad. These are made of arched brick and stone, rare for steam tunnels now days, and lead to newer sections of tunnel that go all over campus. I will mention that though the tunnels are not alarmed there one security camera in this section, that frankly is either fake or not watched in this section.
Posted by Gauge:
| Check the basement of the dorms |
Actually very few dorms at MU have access to steam tunnels on campus with out going into locked sub-basements, the best bet is older buildings on 'Red Campus' or really new ones on 'White Campus' these seem to have the easiest (and most likely unlocked) entrances.
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tubabro
Location: Columbia, MO
Gender: Male
Team Asbestos @ Mizzou
| | Re: Steam Tunnels in Missouri
<Reply # 10 on 7/20/2006 11:15 PM >
| | | | Those steam tunnels are very exciting to explore!
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Kent
Gender: Male
Team Asbestos from CoMo
| | Re: Steam Tunnels in Missouri
<Reply # 11 on 7/21/2006 5:28 AM >
| | | | I'm taking ear plugs next time... f-ing hissing machinery.
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Fett
Location: Columbia, Missouri
Gender: Male
| | Re: Steam Tunnels in Missouri
<Reply # 12 on 7/21/2006 8:27 AM >
| | | | I wish they'd fix that god-forsaken leak so the journey can continue. Any one have any good tips for getting past 200 degree vaporized water?
640 K [of computer memory] ought be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates (1981) |
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tubabro
Location: Columbia, MO
Gender: Male
Team Asbestos @ Mizzou
| | Re: Steam Tunnels in Missouri
<Reply # 13 on 7/22/2006 6:49 AM >
| | | | Yeah, any suggestions would be nice... that leak is bad.
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KungfuYew
Location: Columbia MO
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Steam Tunnels in Missouri
<Reply # 14 on 7/22/2006 5:51 PM >
| | | | Oh, MU campus... i know the place very well. or, well enough for not actually attending mu, just so much of a downtown/campus junkie, my friends and i get bored. near the collumns, there is a crosswalk from the library/mc donalds area that has something engraved. if you go down the stairs to the left, look again to the left and theres a door. it just leads to a huge fan, but you can see into it sometimes when the lights are on in there. theres some underground tiled tunnel. its rather interesting. we've been trying to find the entry to thoes tunnels for a while. as for the steam tunnels, i wouldnt venture them (thats just me, havent really tried yet though >.<). you can see the steam in 90 degree weather. its fairly hot. wouldnt want to be trapped in one of thoes.
-KFY
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Fett
Location: Columbia, Missouri
Gender: Male
| | Re: Steam Tunnels in Missouri
<Reply # 15 on 7/22/2006 8:45 PM >
| | | | Yeah we checked out that fan for a long time, until we realized its quite sealed from the inside. past that fan and right under Lowry mall is where the steam leak we can't get past is, the rest of the tunnels though are quite cool, especially the old stonework ones under the quad. The steam you see walking around on campus all most always comes from steam 'rooms.' small stand alone concrete underground rooms that don't have insulated pips, and are often filled with near boiling water.
I can't give you details on the public form, but we know several. We've been checking the tunnels about once a month if your interested.
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Kent
Gender: Male
Team Asbestos from CoMo
| | Re: Steam Tunnels in Missouri
<Reply # 16 on 7/23/2006 5:43 AM >
| | | | hmm, "thoes"... sounds like someone is almost as drunk as I am
and I think a tarp and maybe some earplugs would work
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Fett
Location: Columbia, Missouri
Gender: Male
| | Re: Steam Tunnels in Missouri
<Reply # 17 on 7/26/2006 5:57 AM >
| | | | 'The Leak' has been repaired and now that area consist of extremely loud machinery and slightly raised temp. The Tunnel runs all the way through Lowry Mall
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