Really big things where you live

[Elias Graves]

What are the largest man made object in your part of the world?

For me, it's the Union Equity Terminal Elevators, used for wheat storage. They can keep 80 million bushels of the stuff inside these monsters. The scale of them is hard to fathom until you've seen them in person. Visible from nearly 50 miles away.
My dad helped build these and one of my brothers is the chief weighmaster at the big ones, pictures here...

Seeing the rail cars dwarfed in this pic helps give some perspective.

 

[Ignored Member]

D/FW Airport:

AT&T Stadium (known as the "Death Star" by some locals).

 

[Elias Graves]

D/FW Airport:

AT&T Stadium (known as the "Death Star" by some locals).

I did not know you were in Dallas. I lived in Frisco for a while. Fuck fire ants!
And I hate that damn airport. Ugh!

 

[Ignored Member]

I did not know you were in Dallas. I lived in Frisco for a while. Fuck fire ants!
And I hate that damn airport. Ugh!

I think D/FW just reflects a "Let's make it stupid, ridiculously big" mindset. Plus it's positioned in such a way that you have to pay a toll and go through it to go between the north and south central parts of the metroplex. The highway interchanges around it are some of the most confusing I've ever seen in the US.

The renovated Love Field is pretty nice now.

 

[Mark Wein]

I don't know if this is the biggest, but its my favorite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Corps_Air_Station_Tustin

 

[Pine Apple Slim]

Saturn V

Not the biggist thing but prob the most impressive

 

[bsman]

MArk -- just beat me to mine: Moffett field (former NAS) blimp hangar

 

[tgk03]

Dammit Mark. That's it! I couldn't think of anything. I googled "tallest structure in Orange County," and came up the Supreme Scream at Knott's Berry Farm. Not nearly as impressive.

 

[Tig]

Now that is a blimp hanger! We had a 6 blimp hanger from WWII near Galveston until hurricane Carla wiped most of it out in 1962.

Recent

 

[Elias Graves]

We now have the Devon Tower, also. The tallest structure in Oklahoma by a wide margin.

 

[Tig]

The San Jacinto Monument is 567' tall, 12' taller than the Washington Monument. One-ups-man, Texas style.

 

[Tig]

And the biggest failboat in the NFL

 

[Prages]

The only really big thing in WV is the New River Gorge Bridge.

And Pragestock.

 

[jamesp]

Bonneville Dam, I suppose. LOTS of concrete in that structure.

 

[Theodore]

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Hmm, not much is large that is man made around here. Maybe the Olympic sized half pipe. Or more likely yet, the snow making system on Baldy. Not a singular large structure, but a very large system, largest in the world I believe.

 

[Gary Blanchard]

There is really nothing big man-made anywhere near me, and I'm okay with that. After 55 years of city life, I like the small scale and relaxed pace of small-town New England.

 

[Tralfaz]

The Galveston Seawall... Miles and miles of wonderful concrete...

And (depending on your definition of man-made) the Houston Ship Channel

 

[Tralfaz]

Saturn V

Not the biggist thing but prob the most impressive

We've got one of those in our backyard. The neighbors complained about it sitting outside and rusting, so we built a shed over it.

 

[Elias Graves]

We've got one of those in our backyard. The neighbors complained about it sitting outside and rusting, so we built a shed over it.

Good idea. I just cover mine with a tarp and some old tires.