78 Comments Posted by RedDragon

This a condenser unit. After the hot steam blasts through the turbine, its circulated through those tubes and the steam condenses back into water only to be super-heated and turned into steam again. There is a a plate that has been removed from teh front

Iv'e always wondered what those little doors are for. I think thats where the pilot flames are located

One could only imagine how loud it was in there with all those suckers running at once. Theres even a soundproof phone booth in there.

Its just water, the entire roof above has gaping holes in it.

you guys wanna see some blood !?

http://photobucket.com...man5-21-20051113.jpg

ha!

Motts, youve really stepped your painting game.

Its not an orb. It's sun flare. It is the result of sunlight bouncing off of the insides elements of the camera lens

It's part of whats left of an "synchronous motor"

Wait a minute!! those things in the center are the same ones labeled "Handles" in the Franklin Power Station album>

Amazing. So simple yet extremely powerfull.

Screw that, I never had the balls to go out onto those walkways

These are the coal towers. Barges would dock on either side of the peir. Huge coal buckets would be driven out along cables underneath the steel booms spanning out from either side. The buckets would then descend into the barges scooping up tons of coal at a time and then raise back up into those dark slanted shaped funnels on the side. The coal then would be automatically loaded onto the conveyer belt and on into the boiler house. The operators booths can be seen just behind the funnels . The conveyer has been removed on this tower, you can see where the roofing was just above the center passage on the ground floor.

This is the system of hot and cool steam and water return. The hot steam enters the turbine, exits into condensers and turns back into water. Tha water in turn is re heated, turned back into steam and the cycle starts over and over. Sorry about the know-it-all tangent but the principle of how these things operate fascinates me. It's so simple and elementary but harnessed into a scale such as this can obviously power entire neiborhoods.

I heard the CD player in the computer works as well RD haha ;-)


haha yes yes

Yup thats correct. Those grey circular plates are tha actual fan blades that super high pressure steam was forced and then re-forced into. The resulting spinning of the turbine created the electricity. And Motts when are you going to put up you pics of the "other" power plant ? I cant wait to see those.