[ithinkso]

This is tangential at best but I was in Chicago,US once for a business trip and we had weekends off so we did some sight-seeing and one Sunday late afternoon we were close to Fermilab so we decided to take a look.

The building was empty but open, there's a museum upstairs but when we got lost between floors we would just walk between cubicles that were clearly in use during the week, it was super wierd and cool at the same time. We didn't see the accelerator of course but still, we saw some control rooms etc..., to this day I'm not sure if we broke in or what

[toomuchtodo]

I’m not sure if it’s still there, but if you walked into the cafeteria the remote ops center for the CMS detector and the LHC was on your left hand side through a glass wall and door.

My leadership chain was…interesting but it was incredibly cool in my mid 20s to lunch with high energy physicists and others in this space.

https://cms.fnal.gov/remote-operations-center/

(worked on CMS data taking for a year in the mid 00s)

[beezle]

I recall back in the 90s that Fermilab had a public telnet page one could connect at to get current beam line stats/info.

[Pokepokalypse]

back in the 1990s, they used to hold open house tours.