Nuclear Bunker Diesel Turbine Start Sequence

Lyons, NE, Saturday, ‎May ‎17, ‎2008, ‏‎12:05:24 PM. This diesel generator provided emergency backup power for the underground nuclear-hardened bunker outside Lyons, NE. The civilian owner of the bunker, John La Rue, runs the generator through its start-up sequence. You gotta love the sound of the turbine spooling up to operating speed.

During the cold-war era AT&T built this communication facility to provide secure communications with Air Force One and Strategic Air Command (Bellevue, NE). It's 2-foot thick concrete walls and massive coil-spring isolation were designed to withstand a nearby Soviet nuclear blast.
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The facility will be open to the public one last time on Sat. May 1, 2010 [http://tinyurl.com/5etzb]. Mr. La Rue owns an antique telephone museum in Stockton, CA [http://tinyurl.com/yencwug]

View construction pictures of the bunker here: [http://tinyurl.com/y8zej5v]

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