What about the Sunmaid Rasins?
Posted on 11/17/2014 10:27:39 PM PST by smokingfrog
According to the Fresno Bee, crews were dismantling the old Del Monte plant on G Street when they came across the tunnel, believed to have been built around 1906 by the Pacific Coast Seeded Raisin Co. According to century-old fire insurance maps, the tunnel was most likely used to shuttle raisins back and forth between the two outposts of the factory, across the street from each other.
The tunnel's discovery has also reportedly set off a battle between the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) and Chinatown Revitalization Inc., who want to see the tunnel documented as historically significant.
Chinatown Revitalization board member Kathy Omachi put it this way to the Bee: "There hasn't been a lot of movement for our organization to actually trust the group representing high-speed rail." Omachi added that the CHSRA "is inadequately gauging the effect of construction on important Central Valley historical structures and artifacts."
For its part, the rail authority believes that the while the tunnel is certainly old enough to be included on the list of state and national historic landmarks, it lacks other features necessary for the designation, like distinctive physical characteristics or involvement in historical events.
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At least they didn’t stumble across the Hershey Highway.
History be damned, we're building high-speed rail that nobody will use here!
Que the song, “Heard it through the grapevine”.
Illegals will use it.
If I live there, I’d be raisin heck about it.
Imagine if this sort of tunnel were found on our border, as we tried to build a security fence.
Think the fence would go ahead as planned?
They didn’t want thier raisins In the Sun
What about the Sunmaid Rasins?
A Dallas fire marshal told me about abandoned locamotive and tank car somewhere near Jackson and Feild streets underground in a sealedup tunnel.
If it was sealed up, how’d he know about it?
It’s a specially designed steam engine that operated underground. Often referred to as a thermos bottle, the engine did not produce an outpouring of steam in the tunnels under downtown Dallas.
Here’s a link: http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMGC7X_CLOSED_Santa_Fe_RR_tunnels_Dallas_TX
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Threads on this topic can also be found on the Dallas History Phorum using the search feature there.
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Well... I guess I do and just didn’t know it!
I imagine a century-old raisin is pretty wrinkly.
I was told that it was found after a watermain break occured and a flood event resulted. They poked a hole in the wall and took pictures of it. There are monitor wells in downtown around the site. I install UST’s for a living and did some work at AT&T. The tunnel is north of Jackson. Well part of it.
Thank you
There are 2 30k gallon UST’s on site. Supply for generators up top.
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