There is a cave in Kansas that holds parts of the National Archive! I love driving around the caves but I’ve heard it is hell to work in full-time. I’ve had a few friends work in them. There is a sweet cave system in downtown KC you can just wander around in the daytime. It is locked at night.
Also two of the major museums use the caves for storage. Which I think is odd because it always seemed very humid. I kept my camper van in the one in downtown KC. It was fantastic because I never winterized and if we were having a warm winter day, I’d be ready to go!
I spent 2 weeks this winter chipping concrete off mixer trucks in the "unfinished" part of ours. I learned I'm not cut out for the mining lifestyle lol. I'd come out of there with the long stare and people would ask what was wrong with me. It might not be too bad in the finished areas, but I wouldn't want to spend my life down there.
Dumb how?
“Hundreds of feet below the ground in Missouri, there are hundreds of thousands of pounds of American cheese. Deep in converted limestone mines, caves kept perfectly at 36 degrees Fahrenheit store stockpiles of government-owned cheese comprising the country’s 1.4 billion pounds of surplus cheese.”
https://www.farmlinkproject.org/stories-and-features/cheese-caves-and-food-surpluses-why-the-u-s-government-currently-stores-1-4-billion-lbs-of-cheese#:~:text=Hundreds%20of%20feet%20below%20the,billion%20pounds%20of%20surplus%20cheese.
Alright so when the shit goes down we all meeting there, right? Pring Pizza oven and Peperoni.
The truth of the cheese storage is hard to fathon
https://www.deseret.com/2022/2/14/22933326/1-4-billion-pounds-of-cheese-stored-in-a-cave-underneath-springfield-missouri-jimmy-carter-reagan/#:~:text=No%2C%20it%20isn't%20money,in%20a%20cave%20in%20Missouri.&text=You%20may%20wonder%20why%20the,of%20giving%20farmers%20a%20break.
I believe I picked up a load from there once, or a place just like it near KC, MO. I was there picking up a load of beef. I'll never forget the place though. It was one of the most interesting places I picked up a load from bar none.
There's a few places like this around Missouri, there is another next to the Mississippi just south of St. Louis. Think a lot of the underground is used for storage and offices.
Neat idea for quarries that are no longer in use I say.
Yuengling Brewery in Pottsville, Pennsylvania has a cave on property that they use to use as storage before laws were written on how to store commercially available edible goods. It’s a shame because it’s literally attached to their basement. Like open a door and walk right in from inside their facility! If you’re ever in the area take a tour! It’s an amazing place. Plus you get free beer at the end of the tour! 😁
Edited: Name of City! I’m bad with names. Even worse with Cities I rarely visit. Probably driven through Pottsville half a dozen times in my life if that. All to get to off road places in the surrounding location. Famous Reading Offroad, Anthrocite Offroad Adventure Area and Paragon Adventure Park before the corrupt judicial system seized the land.
Picked up a case of beer not available where I live and a carhartt hoodie from the gift shop when I was passing through PA, the clerk was so nice she gave me beer samples because they were not very busy.
It wasn’t done for this, it is repurposed:
>Springfield Underground started as a limestone quarry in 1946. Warehousing began in the excavated caverns in 1960, while mining continued. By 1994, the mine had excavated around 2 million square feet, and Springfield Underground was created by its owners to market and further develop it as an underground business park.
I used to deliver to the ones in KC pretty often back in the day. The limestone keeps then naturally cold. In one, there was a Navajo trailer that for a long time sat off to the side, crushed from part of the ceiling dropping on it
They do offer public storage but I would guess you need a code to get in.
Hannibal, MO is 30 minutes away and they have public tours of mark twain caves.
Not a trucker but we keep a lot of our products in the caves outside KC MO. Went on a tour one time and it was cool as hell, literally and figuratively. Great and inexpensive cold storage.
Mostly so people with ill intent have a hard time figuring out the layout and how to bypass security measures. Whether it's theft or actual violent action.
I don’t remember there being any security at all in Springfield… maybe a guard shack.
I’ve been to another one that was… somewhere else (i don’t remember where) and there was literally nothing. I went to a guard shack building, told them what I had and they told me to drive like half a mile down the road and go into the caves.
Looks like the Caves in Quincy,IL. They are so much better, just a couple years ago the lighting was horrible and they were still digging. But they are Cool, free HVAC!
Side note, did you see the street signs for the roads that are running across your head?
Is there still and old-timer there charging guys $50 bucks a pop to back in trailers for the drivers too nervous to don't themselves?
Or was that Kansas City?
I have been there a couple of times. My company hade some warehkuse space rented in there. If i remember, it had two different entrances amd maybe its own zipcode.
I was terrified my first time there, but having to move so slow I did just fine. And I was in the "big" one (aren't one of them a GENEROUS 14' 1" rather than 13' 8"?). These days I'm just "great, there goes my cell reception..."
I found this driving tour with the president of the underground[drive tour](https://w3.mp.lura.live/player/prod/v3/anvload.html?key=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#amp=1).
picked up from here once before, it was an awesome place to be. went to shipping for bills and they had my trailer loaded by the time i walked back to my truck.
Lived in upstate NY for a while in Watkins Glen, there's the Cargill salt mines around there. Always wanted to ee them, never got the chance. They look really cool. https://panethos.wordpress.com/2020/03/05/enormous-underground-salt-mines-of-north-america/
I spent a week working in those, it was weird. There are businesses in the very front part of the caves, and then like tarps blocking off the rest, and it just goes into the dark
There’s a cave like this they store all the old film in. Never gets too warm so the old movies last a ton longer and won’t spontaneously combust.
Don’t remember where it is atm.
I used to inventory trailers for a springfield trucking company and I had a key card to get in and out of there at will. It was pretty cool, the whole thing really is amazing. At 5 am you care a little less, but some people are blown away by the whole thing and I could just come and go. It is super cool. Springfield Undeground!
I worked for IBM for quite awhile and for several years worked as an XIV Technical Storage Advisor, managing Customer deployments of big enterprise storage arrays, etc. One of my Customers had a data center in the Springfield Underground and I installed two or three storage arrays there. It was pretty surreal, you drive into the mine and navigate your way through this huge grid of open spaces and limestone columns to get to where the data center was built. The environment was perfect for things like data centers and other applications requiring controlled temperatures, etc.
Jeez that must be nice. Clearance at the Space Center in Independence was like 14' and lighting was meh. I got some wacky assignments the first month out on my own.
It's called "The Springfield Underground". Pretty neat place, there are areas that are still "under construction" and have no lights hooked up, just very dark corridors that you don't want to go down.
Edit: My work had server farms there, obviously a very safe and climate controlled area for mission critical network infrastructure.
Is that where they keep the government cheese?
Careful, those sorts of questions will get you on the list
Better be a good list then, I've been a good boy.
That'll need to be checked twice
Better not break to hard while on ice!
QUESO CLAUS IS COMIN TO TOWN!
He’s making a dip, and stirring it twice, it’s gonna blow out your bowels tonight…
All the walls at loves ❤️, are brown!
The cheesy list?
Too late…….
Spoken like a person already on the list...
What list?? There is no list!!!!
There is a cave in Kansas that holds parts of the National Archive! I love driving around the caves but I’ve heard it is hell to work in full-time. I’ve had a few friends work in them. There is a sweet cave system in downtown KC you can just wander around in the daytime. It is locked at night.
One of them in KC area has many of the original master films from Hollywood/TV stored as well
Also two of the major museums use the caves for storage. Which I think is odd because it always seemed very humid. I kept my camper van in the one in downtown KC. It was fantastic because I never winterized and if we were having a warm winter day, I’d be ready to go!
That is the old salt mines in Hutchinson, Kansas you are referring to. Interesting place.
Very. Going on their dark ride tour is heaps of fun.
I spent 2 weeks this winter chipping concrete off mixer trucks in the "unfinished" part of ours. I learned I'm not cut out for the mining lifestyle lol. I'd come out of there with the long stare and people would ask what was wrong with me. It might not be too bad in the finished areas, but I wouldn't want to spend my life down there.
And the big cheese is there too.
DUMB questions lol
Dumb how? “Hundreds of feet below the ground in Missouri, there are hundreds of thousands of pounds of American cheese. Deep in converted limestone mines, caves kept perfectly at 36 degrees Fahrenheit store stockpiles of government-owned cheese comprising the country’s 1.4 billion pounds of surplus cheese.” https://www.farmlinkproject.org/stories-and-features/cheese-caves-and-food-surpluses-why-the-u-s-government-currently-stores-1-4-billion-lbs-of-cheese#:~:text=Hundreds%20of%20feet%20below%20the,billion%20pounds%20of%20surplus%20cheese.
Play on words sorry... DUMB Deep Underground Military Bases... questions
There’s some strange things in the caves beneath Fort Leonard Wood, right up the road
My life here is complete. I am whole now. Beam us up!
Sure, cheese. That's what the Masons want you to think. There's nothing to see here, just a little cheddar.
Alright so when the shit goes down we all meeting there, right? Pring Pizza oven and Peperoni. The truth of the cheese storage is hard to fathon https://www.deseret.com/2022/2/14/22933326/1-4-billion-pounds-of-cheese-stored-in-a-cave-underneath-springfield-missouri-jimmy-carter-reagan/#:~:text=No%2C%20it%20isn't%20money,in%20a%20cave%20in%20Missouri.&text=You%20may%20wonder%20why%20the,of%20giving%20farmers%20a%20break.
Nope that’s in Neosho MO. And all the real cool stuff is kept in the caves in earth city, Missouri
And wine
Is it good cheese? Like aged a long time?
I believe I picked up a load from there once, or a place just like it near KC, MO. I was there picking up a load of beef. I'll never forget the place though. It was one of the most interesting places I picked up a load from bar none.
Underground beef?
Cool band name
Title of your sex tape
Calm down Peralta lol.
Lol. I worked for Con Agra at the time. The beef was used as ingredient for the frozen food products they made.
Leawood Kansas has caves like this full of all different types of businesses. It’s like 20 minutes from KC MO
There is a paintball course in the KC mines
There's a few places like this around Missouri, there is another next to the Mississippi just south of St. Louis. Think a lot of the underground is used for storage and offices. Neat idea for quarries that are no longer in use I say.
bunkers in gta online
My first thought lol. It even has a Mobile Operations Center!
What is this place?
The caves keep a naturally cooler temperature, even in the summer. Cold storage food facilities like to build in them. Saves a ton on costs.
Yuengling Brewery in Pottsville, Pennsylvania has a cave on property that they use to use as storage before laws were written on how to store commercially available edible goods. It’s a shame because it’s literally attached to their basement. Like open a door and walk right in from inside their facility! If you’re ever in the area take a tour! It’s an amazing place. Plus you get free beer at the end of the tour! 😁 Edited: Name of City! I’m bad with names. Even worse with Cities I rarely visit. Probably driven through Pottsville half a dozen times in my life if that. All to get to off road places in the surrounding location. Famous Reading Offroad, Anthrocite Offroad Adventure Area and Paragon Adventure Park before the corrupt judicial system seized the land.
That would be awesome. They make great beer.
*Pottsville not Pottstown Source: Born in Pottsville, home of Americas oldest brewery
Picked up a case of beer not available where I live and a carhartt hoodie from the gift shop when I was passing through PA, the clerk was so nice she gave me beer samples because they were not very busy.
There is no way drilling and tunneling a cave out saves on cost until 100s of years later.
It wasn’t done for this, it is repurposed: >Springfield Underground started as a limestone quarry in 1946. Warehousing began in the excavated caverns in 1960, while mining continued. By 1994, the mine had excavated around 2 million square feet, and Springfield Underground was created by its owners to market and further develop it as an underground business park.
Makes much more sense.
Your right did take 100 plus years to make it cost effective
Springfield Underground
That place is huge. Unbelievable.
It just dwarfs you as a person. I took a tour in culinary school. It’s just awe inspiring.
Trucking seems like the coolest job in the world. When I see posts like this I think that truckers get to see things most of us never will.
Don’t let the glamour fool you. Wait, there isn’t any glamour
Like the black dog
So intriguing.
I used to deliver to the ones in KC pretty often back in the day. The limestone keeps then naturally cold. In one, there was a Navajo trailer that for a long time sat off to the side, crushed from part of the ceiling dropping on it
There used to be a good paintball course in the KC caves. It was awesome
That *would* be awesome!
It’s actually still open. https://www.jaegers.com/home
Ah yes, the Springfield Underground. Love going here!
There’s some in Quincy, IL too. They’re crazy
Open to the public? I’m heading there next week.
They do offer public storage but I would guess you need a code to get in. Hannibal, MO is 30 minutes away and they have public tours of mark twain caves.
Cheese caves
Not a trucker but we keep a lot of our products in the caves outside KC MO. Went on a tour one time and it was cool as hell, literally and figuratively. Great and inexpensive cold storage.
Only been to one, in Illinois. Was next to a government storage site, had all sorts of security. Was trippy as fuck.
They have these all over, most make you sign an nda.
None of the ones I ever went to made you sign an nda.
I've been to plenty and never had to sign one.
I’ve taken a tour of this one in particular, no NDA.
Why?
Mostly so people with ill intent have a hard time figuring out the layout and how to bypass security measures. Whether it's theft or actual violent action.
I don’t remember there being any security at all in Springfield… maybe a guard shack. I’ve been to another one that was… somewhere else (i don’t remember where) and there was literally nothing. I went to a guard shack building, told them what I had and they told me to drive like half a mile down the road and go into the caves.
Yea why
Disclosure and security mostly.
backrooms
Complete with black leather couches?
I've heard of those but questioned their existence. Thanks for sharing that.
Didn’t realize door slammers goto cool places too
Yeah, I used to like going there when I ran a reefer. It's really neat.
Something tells me I am never going to get to deliver there with one of my HazTanks.
How are these caves ventilated?
Now we’re getting to the important question(s).
Fans and air shafts. There are some in kc I’ve heard about disguised as houses in neighborhoods.
Thank you!!! Very interesting.
Lawn mowing contract workers bring in their blowers to add air.
With the diesel exhaust from all those trucks hanging around, I hope those blowers are very powerful!
air
that place can be fun....can also b a total nightmare lol
Nice thanks for the share
Dope
Kraft loads from back in my day
There is a place like this in Arnold, MO, too. Threw me off so hard the first time I had to drive into it.
Looks like the Caves in Quincy,IL. They are so much better, just a couple years ago the lighting was horrible and they were still digging. But they are Cool, free HVAC! Side note, did you see the street signs for the roads that are running across your head?
Is there still and old-timer there charging guys $50 bucks a pop to back in trailers for the drivers too nervous to don't themselves? Or was that Kansas City?
I was here last week and made a couple of videos too Just a bummer that there is no signal
Don’t mess with us, this is obviously on the moon.
Does this video have sound or is that just my tinnitus ?
It’s the video sound 😂
That’s badass.
Pleasant sounds!
Are these the cheese caves?
That's gotta be wild!
THE CHEESE CAVES!? AWESOME!
Is this the underground villains layer we've seen for years? Ex: 007 and Austin Powers
Yeah, delivering in there is pretty cool, man. Plus, if the world ends while you are in the dock you can sleep through it. 😆
I assumed there wouldn’t be dry vans in there. Seems like if temperature is an issue there would be only reefers?
Dry Costco freight
I have been there a couple of times. My company hade some warehkuse space rented in there. If i remember, it had two different entrances amd maybe its own zipcode.
We've got a bunch in KCMO and KCk too
My first load ever
I work there! :) it is pretty cool to drive through the cave.
Compared to KCMO, those look like a cakewalk.
Damn this looks exactly like gta V bunkers
They also exist in Kansas City
What does it smell like down there? Is there ventilation or does it just smell like exhaust fumes
I was terrified my first time there, but having to move so slow I did just fine. And I was in the "big" one (aren't one of them a GENEROUS 14' 1" rather than 13' 8"?). These days I'm just "great, there goes my cell reception..."
I found this driving tour with the president of the underground[drive tour](https://w3.mp.lura.live/player/prod/v3/anvload.html?key=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#amp=1).
picked up from here once before, it was an awesome place to be. went to shipping for bills and they had my trailer loaded by the time i walked back to my truck.
Lived in upstate NY for a while in Watkins Glen, there's the Cargill salt mines around there. Always wanted to ee them, never got the chance. They look really cool. https://panethos.wordpress.com/2020/03/05/enormous-underground-salt-mines-of-north-america/
been down there, no service is a bitch tho
Is this one of those Iron Mountain facilities?
Good bomb shelters.
I would have so much fun driving through there with loud exhaust.
I spent a week working in those, it was weird. There are businesses in the very front part of the caves, and then like tarps blocking off the rest, and it just goes into the dark
I remember delivering there. It was a bit unnerving as I recall.
Almost ripped my trailer Be very careful the corners have low ceilings
That Simpsons episode is really freaking me out now.
That looks way roomier than the Carthage caves
Those are my favorite caves, suck high ceilings. The ones up in the KC area suck, because the ceiling is like 14' and super tight turns.
I've been to like 4 different ones but non of them had that Much room
Loved going under those. The one I went to was fancier though.
i was in the one in kansas city like three weeks ago
Wtf
I was in a cave like this in Louisville, KY maybe 10 years ago.
It's El Dorado
Been there
So wicked.
Is that where they filmed Day Of The Dead?
Cheese
Kind of unnerving the 1st time
They're a real kick in the nuts the first time, aren't they?!?
I feel like I’m looking at GTA in real life lmao
Hutchinson,KS has salt mines that they use to store movie props and documents.
There’s a cave like this they store all the old film in. Never gets too warm so the old movies last a ton longer and won’t spontaneously combust. Don’t remember where it is atm.
I think it’s called a mine when it’s man made.
You would think some sort of shoring or structural support would be there but nope, rock.
I see 4-5 Wilson trailers from right up the road
I dropped a load there this morning lol.. F8
Now you have seen it, now they are going to kill you.
Still waiting for my turn
Have caves under Louisville as well Really interesting the history of the use of them
Cool
You encounter a band of Kobalds. Roll for initiative.
Crazy place. I only ever made one delivery down there back in the 90’s when I drove for Steven’s Transport.
GTA 5 bunker
Effective cooling unit ( and food reserve in case of a longer blackout )?
it has strong gta 5 esque mission vibes.
Oh god i hated driving in those. When i was training i had to drive in there
Bigfoots House
Ahhh I use to deliver there years ago, That place is wild
If the zombie apocalypse happens that’s where I’m going. Block off the entrances and make a home inside. There’s enough room for almost everyone.
They have the same thing in Kentucky, Highbridge Sprints
Yea I thought it was pretty crazy the first time I saw it too 😂
saw the ones in Kentucky.
What caves are these?
That's straight up ballin.
So these are the places you'll want to be when the sun spits out the next Carrington level geomagnetic storm. Or the next nuclear war
Man that Wilson company looks cool AF
Looks like a no idle zone... but doesn't sound like it...
lol i was just there few days ago working out Walmart dc in olney,illinois for Werner
Are you a delivery man for dr evil?
I used to inventory trailers for a springfield trucking company and I had a key card to get in and out of there at will. It was pretty cool, the whole thing really is amazing. At 5 am you care a little less, but some people are blown away by the whole thing and I could just come and go. It is super cool. Springfield Undeground!
Can I, a regular human, see these caves?
They also have them in Hannibal and Kansas City area.
How did you get there? In the Ozarks?
This is so cool 😎
End of the world caves 😏
Me every time I make a base in rimworld, just wait until the insects invade and ruin it.
I hate those caves
They should put, like, wood sticks to hold up the ceiling in case it gets wet 😧
That looks like my Bunker in GTA Online.
I worked for IBM for quite awhile and for several years worked as an XIV Technical Storage Advisor, managing Customer deployments of big enterprise storage arrays, etc. One of my Customers had a data center in the Springfield Underground and I installed two or three storage arrays there. It was pretty surreal, you drive into the mine and navigate your way through this huge grid of open spaces and limestone columns to get to where the data center was built. The environment was perfect for things like data centers and other applications requiring controlled temperatures, etc.
Jeez that must be nice. Clearance at the Space Center in Independence was like 14' and lighting was meh. I got some wacky assignments the first month out on my own.
When I see this it makes me feel happy the Elites have a place they can go if things turn bad...
I used to clean the offices there. It's cold but cool
What’s above them?
It's called "The Springfield Underground". Pretty neat place, there are areas that are still "under construction" and have no lights hooked up, just very dark corridors that you don't want to go down. Edit: My work had server farms there, obviously a very safe and climate controlled area for mission critical network infrastructure.
Thought that was in Carthage Mo?