Explosion at Lake City...

[CINDERS]

Mike ~ that is what pricked up in my mind probably from reading Softly Tread The Brave I think it was used in the Gaine in the Aerial mines

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[fjruple]

Folks
I apologize for hi-jacking this thread but I thought I would post a picture of what today remains of the Eddystone Rifle Plant which produced the Eddystone Pattern 1914 and Model of 1917 Rifles. The long series of buildings in the foreground are all that remains of the plant area. The road on the left side of the picture is Simpson Street. To the right of Simpson Street in the upper section of the picture in the parking lot is where most of the main production and assembly buildings were located. The large building down from the parking is "Wally World". The art deco building in the upper right of the picture that looks like a prison is now the headquarters for the local office of the Federal Railroad Administration.

--fjruple

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[browningautorifle]

A huge difference in buildings if you study the buildings from 100 years ago and now. Just the one left, and the admin building...

[fjruple]

A huge difference in buildings if you study the buildings from 100 years ago and now. Just the one left, and the admin building...

Jim-- You are quite right. The Baldwin Locomative administration building on the upper right which now houses the Federal Railroad Administration was not built until 1928.

--fjruple

[browningautorifle]

That's an enormous spread of buildings compared to what there later was, and certainly people must have no idea with what remains... A mere shadow...