Re: New "What Ifs?"
Posted by Leeedy On 2014/8/12 1:07:23
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Whoa-whoa-whoa and ah-ah-ahh!! I hope I never said anything about working in the plant. Only that I had free access to it via a special permission... and an aunt who used to work for a Packard exec. And I may have mentioned that I still have my ID badge given to me after Packard officially left... and the site was then owned by Packard Properties, Inc.
But yes, there certainly were tunnels. Yes. And lots of other cool things people today don't know about.
I have quite a few ancient EGB Packard Plant blueprints (from when PMCC was actually there) that I saved from the trash back in the 1960s and 1970s. Here is one that I believe shows some tunnels. It's a BIG one... so lonnnng I can't fit it in one shot. Shows the entire property-over a mile long... including areas there would now be north of Edsel Ford Expressway (Freeway). I am considering making copy scans of this one and making the copies available for a fee. This one spent a lot of years in my storage buildings being hauled around and packed away.
At one time I had about a thousand of these in different views, sizes, subject matter, etc. Most were lost when I was robbed and they disappeared in the trunk of my Caribbean which was stolen. I am certain the dirtbag thieves probably dumped all of the paper first thing... with no idea what it was. Funny how greed so easily overrules intellect. Cute, huh?
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Steve203 wrote:
Question for Leeedy:
Seems I recall you saying you worked in building 22 some years after Packard pulled out.
I have been wondering how they got the Merlins from 22 over to 84, Michigan winter weather not ideal for pushing an engine on a dolly over railroad tracks.
Saw a comment by someone in another forum that there is a tunnel under the tracks between the two buildings. He quoted an acquaintance who had worked in 84, iirc for Stone Container, that there is a steel door at the end of a sloping floor in the east wall of 84, "big enough to drive a car through" that was padlocked shut.
In your explorations of 22, did you see a corresponding door, or confirm the existance of a tunnel to 84? If so, about where is this tunnel?
Thanks
Whoa-whoa-whoa and ah-ah-ahh!! I hope I never said anything about working in the plant. Only that I had free access to it via a special permission... and an aunt who used to work for a Packard exec. And I may have mentioned that I still have my ID badge given to me after Packard officially left... and the site was then owned by Packard Properties, Inc.
But yes, there certainly were tunnels. Yes. And lots of other cool things people today don't know about.
I have quite a few ancient EGB Packard Plant blueprints (from when PMCC was actually there) that I saved from the trash back in the 1960s and 1970s. Here is one that I believe shows some tunnels. It's a BIG one... so lonnnng I can't fit it in one shot. Shows the entire property-over a mile long... including areas there would now be north of Edsel Ford Expressway (Freeway). I am considering making copy scans of this one and making the copies available for a fee. This one spent a lot of years in my storage buildings being hauled around and packed away.
At one time I had about a thousand of these in different views, sizes, subject matter, etc. Most were lost when I was robbed and they disappeared in the trunk of my Caribbean which was stolen. I am certain the dirtbag thieves probably dumped all of the paper first thing... with no idea what it was. Funny how greed so easily overrules intellect. Cute, huh?
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