15 Comments Posted by G.Dammann

Sorry, but you are looking at the Catskills. The Adirondacks are much further north. Regardless, your pix are great -- many thanks.

Yeah Bassman, I don't know if its a Hammond or not, but it definitely is a dual keyboard organ, and not a piano. A piano would only have a single keyboard.

God, have they made radiators of this design in the past 100 years? This really looks like one of the originals from the 1800s.

Plumber's nightmare!

Amazing -- the trusses and rafters have collapsed, but the curtains remain on the windows. Even in death, this room likes its privacy.

I'm amazed that the coffee maker is still standing on its cabinet. How did the moronic vandals miss it?

Thanks for the info on the company. Industrial history has always fascinated me -- and your knowledge is much appreciated. Judging by the size of the building, I guess a 50-ton tracked crane would have been necessary for maintenance and repair of the generators and turbines.

Back in its prime, this must have been a beautiful place indeed, with the steam turbines and generators purring away. And like most powerhouses, I'll bet it was spotlessly clean.

Right. The individual furnaces would have been connected by pipes which would have drawn the smoke and heat to the central stacks. Otherwise, each furnace would have had to have its own individual smoke stack. This is an excellent serie of photos. Many thanks.

Yeah, Motts, you really called this shot. A long dead and forgotten god from another life plane. You could easily imagine this thing come stumbling toward you, wheels slowly turning and joints creaking. Brrrrr!

Could this have been part of a fire code? If there was a fire in the warehouse, workers could exit through the doors, shutting the fire behind them, and then go down a fire-free stairwell. Just a guess.

Obviously a generator like this would not have originally been sitting in the middle of a driveway. Apparently someone tried to remove it from its original site, and then gave up -- caught by the cops maybe? Anyway, a good size roll-back truck or truck and crane would have been needed to move it, and due to its age and condition, probably would not have been worth the effort or expense. But it does make a good pix. No, I can't identify the make -- damned!

Man, Mott, you sure have guts. I would never have made it halfway to the base! Teriffic shots of something most of us have never seen. Thanks.

Lynne - beautiful explanation and description. Thank you for the insight.

The picture is excellent, but your poetic description adds a luster of remarkable fine-tuned beauty. Please, keep up this excellent work!