3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

Craig, thank you for all the great information about the machinery and the coking process!

It was at an old coal-fed power plant of a similar height - I started walking down one of these and noticed some large holes in the floor a quarter of the way through... it's just a dumb way to die if the stairs are OK :-)

I'm not sure, there's a stainless steel cylinder with a valve at the end attached to the rubber straps via foam padding... some kind of respiratory component perhaps.

Drop lights, it appears.

It was frosted using a very small square-mesh pattern.

I'm pretty sure they are old fire doors.

Yep, the moisture and the changing temperatures over the seasons will cause the paint to crack and eventually peel or flake off. Many of these places were painted over old coats over the years, so there's usually various colors underneath each other creating an interesting effect (this room was yellow before white).

I believe that being listed on the register makes it a lot harder to tear down a building, but it can still be done with enough political or financial pull (eg. Wal-Mart flattening Dixmont State Hospital, listed on the register November 28, 1980).

MCS was supposed to be demolished in 2009 using federal stimulus money.

Funny... the architect of BCT, Alfred T. Fellheimer (of Fellheimer & Wagner) also worked for Reed & Stem, who was one of the two architectural firms for MCS. Hard to say if he was involved with MCS, but it does not show up as one of his projects at Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.or...lheimer_&_Wagner

No, es en Bélgica.

Nothing more than a general creepy vibe sometimes...

Ah, thanks Junkyardave!