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letsdothis2 ago

On 'shanghaing', Prohibition, tunnels and the Vanderbilts:

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/or-shanghai/

Since the mid-19th century, stories have been told about shanghai practices in Portland. Not only men but women, too were warned to take care against being drugged or kidnapped and hauled off for sale. Women were allegedly shanghaied for use as prostitutes rather than ship’s laborers. Although other ports along the West Coast including San Francisco are said to have been centers of shanghai activity, Portland’s underground tunnels are claimed to have made the practice much more manageable and wide-spread than in other areas.

During Prohibition, it is said that bars moved their operations underground, as well, making it easier than ever for unsuspecting victims to be shanghaied. Some researchers estimate that as many as 1,500 people a year were shanghaied through Portland’s Underground. Entire scenarios about the practices and experiences of the shanghaied in the tunnels have been created and elaborated on over the years.

https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/14-american-cities-with-crazy-underground-tunnel-systems-chicago-boston-new-york

Prohibition/Underground Railroad tunnel

Detroit loves its booze (yeah, Stroh’s!), and it’s perfectly logical that many of Motor City’s speakeasies had escape tunnels during that stupid time when booze was illegal. One notable example is Tommy’s on 3rd Street. Their secret passageway leads to Fort Street Presbyterian Church (across the street) and was also likely part of the Underground Railroad.

http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20180624/news/664511/fords-michigan-central-station-office-workers-will-still-see-and-hear

What is known officially as the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel and its tracks were built in 1910 for $8.5 million by the Detroit River Tunnel Co. for Canada Southern Railway — financed ultimately by the wealthy Vanderbilt family of rail barons via its New York Central Railroad. The Vanderbilts opened the Michigan Central Station three years later at a cost of $2.5 million.

Detroit River Tunnel Company - https://kenkinlock.com/detroit-river-tunnel-company/

The tunnel is approximately 1.6 miles long and it cost over $8 million to build. The New York Central Railway’s engineering vice president, William J. Wilgus oversaw the construction. In 1906, the tunnel was operated by the Michigan Central Railroad. It has since changed hands many times throughout the years. Currently, the tunnel is owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway and Borealis Transportation.

You probably won’t be able to get close to the tunnel itself. The land around it is off-limits to the public and is routinely patrolled by the Homeland Security, the Canadian Pacific Police Service, CN Police, and the Detroit Police Department.

Interesting.

Zzzmmm333 ago

Well howdy fuckin do, would you look at that.. Now do we connect the dots? The dots being places like CPP and Voodoo, see if we can have some sort of station link up, I'd say it would just run in a loop for the estate, around the outside of the country, those being the main stations, then there would be smaller stations inland that maybe connect to the main route.