79 Comments Posted by brian

Yes Phillip...it was.

These are all the same engines that went into the M35 Deuce and a half military vehicle. Awful engines that probably aren't worth saving.

I love how the walkway is not just right angles- its curved with some interest with railings that match.

Certainly two gears. You can see the root, pitch, and outer diameter called out. The O with the cross through it is the diameter symbol.

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.

Now...this is an interesting one. That gauge may indeed be still working as intended. Being a dual vacuum/pressure gauge and in order to show the accurate difference between the two it is calibrated to show true zero..this being minus just under 15 pounds per square inch 'atmospheric...which is the pressure we live in. Aneroid barometers are calibrated the same way and given that the air pressure varies almost daily with the weather it could easily show a high of 20 at the time the photo was taken. Just thought somebody might find it interesting...that's all.

Mac Steves: I'm sure you're right. This is indeed what's left of an AC/DC rotary converter. The company I worked for had some machines powered by variable speed motors each feeding off one of these units.

That is clearly the remnants of what was once an ornate fabric cover. The rows of buttons still attached can be seen to be a continuation of those along the right upper edge of the casket.

Is this facility open for tours or "enter at own risk" type of thing?

Why does this always creep me out

Where is this church located

The contrast and texture in this shot is amazing, I really dig it.

State run. a lot of tax money went into this stuff, that we let happen. They punched out and left, (A MESS). And just think some of these people still live after the torcher they performed.

Easter seals symbol.