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 RuDigger
 
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 |  |  |  |  | Re: Nike Missile Site, Waukesha, WI
<Reply # 20 on 6/12/2010 11:29 PM >
|  | | | Posted by Orangedrink
Where are you at digger? Russia is a lil out of my way 
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haha
in Russia digger meaning same that stalker or UER. In general case (in Russia) man which discover mostly underground, drainage system, etc.
In Russia you are not UER, you are digger (äèããåð)
See my post about USSR ICBM
http://www.uer.ca/...urrpage=1&pp#post0
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Orangedrink
     
Gender: Male
Phobiaphile
| |  | Re: Nike Missile Site, Waukesha, WI
<Reply # 21 on 6/13/2010 12:18 AM >
|  | | | Thanks for clearing that up Digger. I think that stalker means something a little different where I am..
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RuDigger
Gender: Male
| | | | | Re: Nike Missile Site, Waukesha, WI
<Reply # 22 on 8/8/2010 8:01 PM >
| | | | What about lunch silos in this place? They are exist or they was blowed up?
See my post about USSR ICBM
http://www.uer.ca/...urrpage=1&pp#post0
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Orangedrink
Gender: Male
Phobiaphile
| | | Re: Nike Missile Site, Waukesha, WI
<Reply # 23 on 8/8/2010 8:32 PM >
| | | | I haven't personally been to any of the Chicago sites RuDigger but There are supposed to be intact launch sites in Porter, Munster, Hobart and Arlington Heights.
Knowing some of the locations you've been to back home I'm not sure if these sites will be what you expect. I bet sites like this in Russia still have missiles and jet fuel and lot's more cool stuff than the local Nike sites seem to. Still well worth the trip imo.
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RuDigger
Gender: Male
| | | | | Re: Nike Missile Site, Waukesha, WI
<Reply # 24 on 8/9/2010 4:57 AM >
| | | | Looks good i need to think about this.
Somebody know about Damen silos?
See my post about USSR ICBM
http://www.uer.ca/...urrpage=1&pp#post0
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SubUrban66
Location: I80/Route 43 Illinois
Gender: Male
| | Re: Nike Missile Site, Waukesha, WI
<Reply # 25 on 8/15/2010 12:33 AM >
| | | | Posted by Orangedrink
I haven't personally been to any of the Chicago sites RuDigger but There are supposed to be intact launch sites in Porter, Munster, Hobart and Arlington Heights.
Knowing some of the locations you've been to back home I'm not sure if these sites will be what you expect. I bet sites like this in Russia still have missiles and jet fuel and lot's more cool stuff than the local Nike sites seem to. Still well worth the trip imo.
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The launch site at Arlington Heights is filled in and now a golf course, nothing to see. The site at Orland park is also filled in and part of public works.
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Ogre Battle
Location: Chicago IL
Gender: Male
| | Re: Nike Missile Site, Waukesha, WI
<Reply # 26 on 8/16/2010 11:27 AM >
| | | | Posted by Orangedrink
I haven't personally been to any of the Chicago sites RuDigger but There are supposed to be intact launch sites in Porter, Munster, Hobart and Arlington Heights.
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There was also one in Naperville; about 25 years ago I was involved with its redevelopment into an park and a bunch of office buildings. Didn't get any pictures, unfortunately, but it was cool to see.
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Therrin
 
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Location: North of Chicago, IL
Gender: Male
*Therrin puts on the penguin-suit
| | | Re: Nike Missile Site, Waukesha, WI
<Reply # 27 on 8/16/2010 12:27 PM >
| | | | Out in Cali, just south of Valencia I've been to the LA-88 Nike site.
I actually wasn't intending to go there, I stumbled across it (literally) while hiking up the side of a mountain.
The control facility is also about a mile away, on the same mountain ridge, and the launch area had uncovered magazines. I climbed down inside one. As I remember, and from what I've researched about the missles...(I believe the main body was one unit, and the tail and nose were attatched before use) I think the magazines would hold maybe 4 missle bodies. Perhaps they had different sized ones though; but the one I crawled down inside I don't remember being all that big.
The thing I thought was funny... the launch control area, with the platforms that had the radar equipment on them... There was a building there which had about a 20" thick blast door on massive hinges. Monster of a door (and it still worked fine!) The building had an underground level, with an escape tunnel which led to a ladder, to a hatch at ground level.
Funny thing was... they've got this massive blast door on the building. And it's about a mile from the actual launch area. But you go in the building and turn left and there's a simple steel door that also came into the building on that side. It came in through was was a decontamination area. Showers, places to put garments, big HVAC filtration units and whatnot.
I never understood why they put that big blast corridor and door assembly on a building that had regular concrete block construction, and a normal outside access door on one side. *shrugs* The underground area was pretty awesome though, even if a bit empty.
Give a person a match and they'll be warm for a minute, but light them on fire and they'll be warm for the rest of their life. =) |
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may pop
Location: Lake in the hills Il.
Gender: Male
| | Re: Nike Missile Site, Waukesha, WI
<Reply # 28 on 8/25/2010 11:51 PM >
| | | | There were sites in Palatine and Addison Il. also. I have been in Addison but that was 30 years ago. Long since covered up.
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