Obama declassifies secret White House train system

[DarthTom]

Wow, I don't know when exactly they declassified this but this is the first i've read this. Many people always speculated that the DC Metro system was prmarily funded not because of the cities need for public transportation - which it did - but as a transport system for the President in the case of a nuclear attack.

It's far more extensive than I could have imagined. Since the system reaches Camp David - why would the president need to take a helicopter to Camp Daivd?

For once the conspiracy theorists were right.

And wow, they plan to make the train go underground all the way to Pennsylvania.

This train system must have been insanly expensive to build and likely stays idle most of the time.

White House.gov


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The Secret Metro Tunnels

The Washington Metro is a subway system that serves the Washington DC area. It "officially" has 106 miles of track serving 86 stations in the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland. Planning for the Metro system began in the 1950s during the height of the cold war. President Eisenhower created a secret rail planning commission that directed the development of a secondary secret underground rail system built alongside the public one.

This secret tunnel system currently connects the White House to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next door, the New Executive Office Building (NEOB), the bunker under the Blair House, the bunker under the VP Residence at the Naval Observatory, the U.S. Capitol, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, the Pentagon, the State Department, and some other federal buildings in between. There is also a secret train that runs between DC's Union Station and Mt. Weather and is under the protection of the TSA Federal Air Marshals.

Long-term plans call for the expansion of the White House tunnel system to go south past the Pentagon; west past the CIA to Mount Weather; and north past Camp David up to Site R in Pennsylvania. The estimated completion date and exact route of this ambitious tunnel expansion plan remains classified.

 

[publiusr]

I guess with affordable private drones in the air, Marine One becomes an easy target.

 

[DarthTom]

I guess with affordable private drones in the air, Marine One becomes an easy target.

It's far more extensive than I would have ever imagined. And WTF is in Penn. that they need t private tunnel from the White House all the way there that likely will never be used at all?

 

[gturner]

Long-term plans call for the expansion of the White House tunnel system to go south past the Pentagon; west past the CIA to Mount Weather; and north past Camp David up to Site R in Pennsylvania.

It probably doesn't yet connect up to Camp David, or the President wouldn't still be taking a helicopter there. During WW-II London built and impressive underground tunnel system to serve as a refuge and transport system for their government, and Eisenhower's allied military headquarters was in part of it, located deep underground. I'd guess that's what gave him the idea to initiate such a project in DC.

BTW, the map lists the CIA and NSA, but has three sites just labeled as "classified". Those are probably golf courses.

 

[gturner]

Oh, nevermind. That's not Whitehouse.gov, it's a parody site, and a pretty funny one.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Closing since the article is fake.