1,466 Comments Posted by autoguy

@Dave This shoot has me crapping my pants! Finding photo shoots of these old engine houses is near impossible. I'd wear out a camera in this place just on these engines alone! Motts could post 100s of photos of these from every angle and detail, and I'd love every one! I'd want to see all the specs and blueprints, all of it. But then, I'm sick that way. ;o)

Looks like a steam turbine rotor.

Slow. IIRC, the large flywheels on most of the old monsters never went over 500 RPM, if that. Many much slower. It was the heavy weight that stored the power, not the speed so much.

I've hunted down material on old giant engines in that past. Those flywheels had to made properly and used very carefully. Flywheel explosions were not uncommon. A runaway flywheel easily destroyed the building it was in, sent pieces into surround buildings, and took more than one engine mechanic out! Governor belts might break, governor sticks, an engine runs away? Guys scrambled to shut it down, but only the ones that dared to go near it!

Giant flywheels! Massive iron! The mighty machines of the Morlocks! This may be the only giant engine house left intact in the USA. Yikes!

Mmmmmrrrrrphhh.... WAAAAH! I WANNA SEE 'EM TOO! ;o)

YOW! Seriously impressive! Imagine all them babies cranking away?! Hopefully one will get used for "industrial archeology" demonstrations some day.

NOW we're talkin'! I could spend a whole day just looking at those engines. I believe the massive steam engines for the rolling mills were removed from this site some years back. Huge giants!

Now pots for venison stew.

Those gears would make for lovely lawn ornaments! A playground for the Eloi.

Looks like them plugs where they let the molten steel out?

David Vincent needs to investigate. The Invaders are setting up shop.

When these giant installations are scrapped, it can send ripples through the scrap iron markets and reduce prices. Sometimes local groups want things preserved as historical sites. Maybe the owner thinks the stuff will sell some day to be used elsewhere? It's a good question, especially when some types of iron scrap topped $200 a ton. Motts mentioned 7 police cars. The owners get free security compliments of the local municipal infrastructure? Ok, takes a little "grease". Almost free.

That TZ ep is the one with the rotten old bag yelling "Hen-reeeee!" at Meredith. A classic.

Dennis Hopper, the Deacon, stands up there and throws down cans of Smeat.