Re: (rshsdepot) Hell's Gate

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

What about New Chicago, Cal.?

Are we talking about when they destroyed a reef at Hell's Gate as it was a navigational hazard?
Paul
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JIMBEAR" <ribear_@_cox.net>
To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Hell's Gate


: 
: ----- Original Message ----- 
: From: "Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
: To: "Julian (Jay) Underwood" <jp.underwood_@_ns.sympatico.ca>; <rshsdepot@lists.railfan.net>
: Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 6:56 PM
: Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Hell's Gate
: 
: 
: > Where is the original message?
: 
: > : ----- Original Message -----
: > : From: JIMBEAR <ribear_@_cox.net>
: > : To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>; Henry Rosenberg <hwr5@columbia.edu>
: > : Cc: Les & Phyllis <lesphyl_@_earthlink.net>; Rick Pinard <PinardR@rferl.org>;
: > : Jamie <nyclincoln_@_aol.com>; RSHS Depot <rshsdepot@lists.railfan.net>
: > : Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 4:01 AM
: > : Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Hell's Gate
: > : 
: > : > ----- Original Message -----
: > : > From: "fred fep" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>
: > : > To: "Henry Rosenberg" <hwr5_@_columbia.edu>
: > : > Cc: "Les & Phyllis" <lesphyl_@_earthlink.net>; "Rick Pinard"
: > : <PinardR_@_rferl.org>; "Jamie" <nyclincoln@aol.com>; "RSHS
: > : > Depot" <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
: > : > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 12:33 AM
: > : > Subject: (rshsdepot) Hell's Gate
: > : >
: > : >
: > : > The explosion was the largest ever until Hiroshima.
: > : >
: > : > 
: > : > Association guided ships through the passage. In the 1870s the reefs
: > : > were blasted; supposedly the explosion was heard as far away as Newark.
: > : > 
: > : > ...from http://www.astorialic.org/topics/names.htm
: > : >
: > : >
: > : Someone at the Astoria Historical Society needs to do a better job of
: > : checking
: > : their facts. The greatest explosion in history before the first atomic
: > : bomb occurred
: > : at Halifax, NS during WWI. A French munitions ship, the Mont Blanc, loaded
: > : with nearly 200 tons of TNT, 10 tons, of gun cotton, 35 tons of benzol,
: > : and 2,300
: > : tons of picric acid (used in manufacturing gunpowder) collided with
: > : another ship in
: > : the channel and caught fire. It exploded 20 minutes later. The resulting
: > : explosion
: > : completely obliterated the 320 foot long, 3,000 ton ship (one of its
: > : anchors was
: > : found two miles away)  and killed more than 1,900 people eventually died
: > : as a
: > : result of the explosion in Halifax that day. During the development of the
: > : atomic
: > : bomb. Robert Oppenheimer and the other scientists used the Halifax
: > : destruction
: > : to calculate the effects of the atomic bomb.
: > : 
: > : BTW, the French crew abandoned the ship and left it adrift. It came to
: > : rest
: > : against the railroad pier. The station master sent a last telegraph
: > : message seconds
: > : before the explosion, describing the peril and saying goodbye.
: > : 
: > : Jim.
: 
: Paul,
: 
: These were the original message from "fred fep" about blasting the channel 
: at Hell Gate in the East River, and my reply to it from back in January, 2003.
: 
: Jim.
: 
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