395 Comments for Toronto Power Company Generating Station

great interview RE power plants at Sault St Marie and also Niagara.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xVHfA7GTl4

I am from Canada and now live in the US. I was near this place the last time I visited there. How very cool to see the inside!

Wow, it would be pretty amazing to see it go over the falls!

She moved!
https://www.wgrz.com/a...0e-85b6-89ea12de5b9d

https://www.smithsonia...eaks-free-180973469/

Ah...the days when one was required to dress appropriately..waistcoats,white shirts and ties. And I'm betting their shoes were like mirrors. I served my time as a toolmaker back in the mid fifties and I remember a few elderly shop floor foremen who still continued to wear the traditional bowler hat...I believe it's called a Derby in the US. Also the works manager and under manager who being quite old still wore the wing collared shirt and bow tie. How times have changed,by the time I retired a lot of the management at the company I worked for were allowed,and chose to wear Jeans.

For me, the point of interest in this scene is not so much the tools but that of the white tiled walls. This is typical of an age when people took an intense pride in things like generating stations and engine houses to the point where they came close to being as clean hospitals and you could literally 'eat off the floor'. I once knew an old guy who in his youth worked as an assistant in the engine room of a cotton mill here in the north of England. He told me that at the end of the shift when the mill workers were all going home,the four engine men had to stay behind to clean up and polish the engine ready for the next day....and this without pay! it was an accepted duty and part of the pride of being an engine man. I think the unions would have something to say about that today. So those tiled walls point to the fact that in its day that room would have gleamed. It must have been quite something to see.

Actually it's not. The same system is still used today on airplanes in both general and military avation.

Joe - thanks for all the insight, I could listen to you talk about his stuff for hours on end!

Second the wallpaper request! Gorgeous shot!

@ Joe above, thanks for all that insight. It's fascinating stuff, at least for me anyway. Us "civilians" take things like power for granted every time we flip a light switch or turn on an electric appliance. We rarely appreciate what goes into making it possible to flip that light switch!

I could start a college class from the info people post here. Thank you Joe.

Well-p, MY curiosity is darn well satisfied. Won't be sleeping much tonight...this is why I leave such exploration to others...

On that day, probably get hypothermia pretty fast.

When the plant was open and the gates to the water intakes were open, I'd assume there would be a pretty good pull, not sure if it would be enough to suck a floating person down though.

From here I believe you'd go down the tube, through the large turbine blades, down the large brick tunnel which makes up the outflow... and then a dropped into the river from behind the Niagara Falls water curtain.

Those old life rings would barely float a 5 year old.

@autoguy - I'm taking it that you're speaking from experience...ugh...what a horrible mental image.

What would happen if you fell into that?