For all of You Train Lovers
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I worked for 36 years at the Thornton Shops for CN Rail. (Previously known as Port Mann before being renamed Thornton). I started in 1978 in a nice new shop, one year earlier the old shops were stripped out and demolished. This building is in the process of being pulled with explosives.
The idea was like you've often seen in videos where controlled charges collapse critical support beams and supports so the whole thing comes down in a neat pattern, ready for cleaning up.
Well, someone misjudged the building which was erected in the early 1900s. Many of the main concrete supports, thought to be hollow, were quite solid. Everyone was allowed to watch as at the appointed time there was a countdown and then BOOM, it was supposed to fall in on itself.
The appointed time came, the BOOM went off. Glass windows blew out, some birds flew from the rafters. Dust settled. The building remained quite intact.
The idea was like you've often seen in videos where controlled charges collapse critical support beams and supports so the whole thing comes down in a neat pattern, ready for cleaning up.
Well, someone misjudged the building which was erected in the early 1900s. Many of the main concrete supports, thought to be hollow, were quite solid. Everyone was allowed to watch as at the appointed time there was a countdown and then BOOM, it was supposed to fall in on itself.
The appointed time came, the BOOM went off. Glass windows blew out, some birds flew from the rafters. Dust settled. The building remained quite intact.
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