Cemetery Posted October 9, 2017 Posted October 9, 2017 Recently, the Kosciusko Bridge in NYC was demolished. This minute long video is the best one I've seen. Use of GoPro video camera (?) gives angles which we normally wouldn't see. Way Cool. EDIT: And here's an add'l video, with different up close angles
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted October 9, 2017 Posted October 9, 2017 Wow! The shot of charges going off in succession was cool. Didn't know they were replacing it, though I'm not surprised as it opened in 1940. Used to pass by it all the time when I lived in NYC in the '70s
Cemetery Posted October 9, 2017 Author Posted October 9, 2017 Yeah, wish my cap guns could do shock waves like that! There will be two bridges there, area is getting resigned for better traffic flow.....if that's even possible. Traffic heading into Brooklyn is backed up for miles into Queens.
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted October 9, 2017 Posted October 9, 2017 Thank goodness. Seemed there was always a traffic jam 24/7 at the BQE/LIE interchange, and that was 40 years ago. We called the Long Island Expressway, the Long Island Distressway -- "the worlds longest parking lot".
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted October 9, 2017 Posted October 9, 2017 Well done and a very clean 'det'. OLG
Cemetery Posted October 9, 2017 Author Posted October 9, 2017 9 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said: We called the Long Island Expressway, the Long Island Distressway -- "the worlds longest parking lot". Well that hasn't changed. Traffic can be backed up from Long Island City to who knows how deep into Nassau County............suicide.
Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme Posted October 16, 2017 Posted October 16, 2017 That was explosive demolition as an "art".
Charlie Harley, #14153 Posted October 16, 2017 Posted October 16, 2017 Love the ripple effect of the charges! An EOD NCO told me once that if a piece of det cord could be strung from San Francisco to NYC, and lit in NYC, it would take 17 minutes for it to reach the west coast.
DocWard Posted October 16, 2017 Posted October 16, 2017 Very cool, and quite the coincidence that just last night I sat and watched a show on PBS about the man the bridge was named for, and how important he was in our fight for independence.
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted October 16, 2017 Posted October 16, 2017 1 hour ago, Charlie Harley, #14153 said: Love the ripple effect of the charges! An EOD NCO told me once that if a piece of det cord could be strung from San Francisco to NYC, and lit in NYC, it would take 17 minutes for it to reach the west coast. I have it at 10 minutes 40 seconds, but maybe he had a safer, less direct route.
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