Moscow Subway Car “Nailed to the Ground.”

By gail in Auto & Transportation, Travel on Nov 27, 2006 at 9:00 pm

subway1

English Russia reports in picturesque but readily understandable English:


A while ago there was a story about one Moscow city street advertisement agency.

What made them famous? Their attempt to install a new street ad
stand, so they had to hammer in a concrete pile into ground. They
started doing this and suddenly the pile came down through ground layer
and disappeared somewhere down there.

Yes, they were shocked but they had a task to accomplish so they
started to smash in another pile รขโ‚ฌโ€œ it also broke in through the ground.
Now they got really puzzled.

So where have their piles gone? They gone right into a subway train,
nailed a full of people subway train moving at 40mph (70kmh) down to
the ground รขโ‚ฌโ€œ right in the middle of the working day. They got extremely
lucky that the subway car in which they hammered in a pile was almost
empty and nobody got seriously injured.

And here are the pilings to prove it:

subway2


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  1. Alex
    Nov 27th, 2006 at 9:52 pm

    They don’t have maps in Russia?

  2. Moon
    Nov 27th, 2006 at 10:11 pm

    They’re even more incompetent than the “Big Dig” people.

    /Or, for that matter, Chicago, which in a 3 month time period in 1992 or so, had a river leak and a bridge fall up! (You could look it up!)

  3. ConstNT
    Nov 28th, 2006 at 7:49 am

    They have…
    But often they just do not care.

  4. ars
    Nov 28th, 2006 at 3:03 pm

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  5. josef
    Nov 28th, 2006 at 5:38 pm

    Don’t! We have maps :) But that work was executed by illegal immigrants – they really don’t care…


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