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| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 1280 on 2/18/2007 6:51 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I hear these victorian tunnels are sometimes lined with copper to give the tunnels strength to withstand the weight of the earth above, homeless people have been in the tunnels for years and have never known this . I think it's because of the coppers age it gets a "green" color to it, back in the old days copper was cheep,thats why the parlement's roof was made of it ,and some of the left over material may have gone to construction of the tunnel from the parlement to the empress (I've just herd these rumors and never seen it for myself) ,also copper itself may have some significance to the satanic rituals that go on all the time in tunnels world wide. yes , anyone care to back me up on this ? thanks .
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| Tanuki
Location: Victoria, BC Total Likes: 1 like
| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 1286 on 2/27/2007 9:21 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | They aren't lined with copper. As anvil says, that would be incredibly expensive and useless. And that link to the supposed Satanist-copper connection is actually about nickel, which is an entirely different metal. In Victoria things like steel, concrete, granite blocks, brick, and wood timbers are used to support the tunnels. But generally, tunnels under Victoria are pretty strong just by themselves, because they are blasted through hard rock. I recently acquired some pictures taken in 1917, showing workers blasting a tunnel through rock some 15 m below Victoria, and then pushing the rock out of the tunnel in little railway cars on tracks laid along the bottom of the tunnel. Judging from the people in the photographs, the tunnel is about 8 feet wide, and judging from the maps, it should be about 2 miles long. They were using wood timbers for supports, and pouring concrete in some places. Unfortunately I can't post them, because they are quite traceable, and someone would probably get in trouble, copyright infringements and all that.
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| KublaKhan
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Total Likes: 207 likes
With Satan, it's always gimmie, gimmie.
| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 1287 on 2/28/2007 12:11 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Tanuki They aren't lined with copper. As anvil says, that would be incredibly expensive and useless. And that link to the supposed Satanist-copper connection is actually about nickel, which is an entirely different metal. In Victoria things like steel, concrete, granite blocks, brick, and wood timbers are used to support the tunnels. But generally, tunnels under Victoria are pretty strong just by themselves, because they are blasted through hard rock. I recently acquired some pictures taken in 1917, showing workers blasting a tunnel through rock some 15 m below Victoria, and then pushing the rock out of the tunnel in little railway cars on tracks laid along the bottom of the tunnel. Judging from the people in the photographs, the tunnel is about 8 feet wide, and judging from the maps, it should be about 2 miles long. They were using wood timbers for supports, and pouring concrete in some places. Unfortunately I can't post them, because they are quite traceable, and someone would probably get in trouble, copyright infringements and all that.
| Wait just a minute here...are you saying that these tunnels...these deep and long tunnels...were actually blasted out from solid bedrock? And then the debris was carted out on rail cars? Are you suggesting that there may be actual cut-through-solid-bed-rock tunnels under the streets of Victoria? Holy Jumpin Jesus, Tanuki... That sounds pretty fukken whack.
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| KublaKhan
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Total Likes: 207 likes
With Satan, it's always gimmie, gimmie.
| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 1289 on 2/28/2007 5:28 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | If only Jester was alive to see/read/experience this. Oh wait. He IS alive...but only in some parallel universe where life forms are measured in low double digits, rather than here in this universe where life forms measure in the thousands, if not tens of thousands. Now...about these rail cars. As I recall, I do remember an old story (probably located here on page 3 or some such) about an existing tunnel around the Pandora/Johnson St. area that, rumour says, features an old set of rails leading from one end all the way up to the top; that this rail system was employed for the purpose of hauling goods up from the docks, and that (rumour claims) there are one or two cars still on the tracks, all rusted of course, but nonetheless there and accessible to those who know the secret of access. I believe it was one of my original street contacts who told me all this...some lonesome fellow eager to spill the beans, as it were, in exchange for a beer/sandwich. They said he was crazy, but I knew better. Which reminds me of the guy who gave me some information related to the exact measure of these tunnels through some arcane mathematical formula/esoteric calculation...all this stuff about Satanic angles and pentagrams and Masonic geometry, which is kind of sexy to tourists, but rather tedious to those of us who live/work/breed in Victoria. I wonder if any of that ridiculous anti-factoid nonsense (re: Satanic angles and pentagrams and Masonic geometry) will pan out. Maybe I should dust off my old city maps and grade-school geometry set. We'll see...
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