75 Comments Posted by evilavatar

The manufacturer is Rundfunk- und Fernmelde-Technik- a German firm started in 1946. They made everything form t.v.'s to teletypes.

That or a cart designed to hold sterno cans for heating food.

This place is just amazing looking, reminds me of the old pabst home in Milwaukee a little, yet that was no where near this scale. A truly modenish castle.

Depending on when the bunker was built it may have been used for any number of things. The out area reminds me of some of the tank repair, maintenance, and storage structures you see, but up until WWI cavalry was still a very strong part of many armies.

In the left of the image it looks as though part of the wall caved in was this a bricked in doorway? Do you now if this room was re-purposed when the building was occupied by soldiers?

I'm surprised the supreme leader of Russia let them paint him bald. If it were me and I was going for total dictatorial tyranny I'd have a full, thick head of hair.

anyone for a cook out?

Shades of the Cask of Amontillado

Devin it looks like a dc voltage meter and was probably for a back up generator. The push button on the front would be to test the generator charge when the power for the generator is off. This would let you know that the generator is holding a charge and ready when needed. You can take a guess on the age as the out box is made of wood. I could tell you more but I can't read the fine print on it

Mr. Motts, this actually may have been used for a training room. We used to have a room like this in the facility I worked at. Students and a teacher or supervisor would be in the other room and wiring for EEG, EKG, or other systems was synced and run into the office behind so that a second set of eyes could monitor the patient while treatment was being done. Sometimes the students would be the ones rendering the treatment depending on how advanced they were and the system inside the office was used to make sure everything was going ok.

The history of ametek can be found here http://www.fundinguniv...Company-History.html . Interestingly the American Machine and Metals, Inc in E. Moline, Ill. (which was later renamed Ametek) is also listed as a Department of Energy legacy site where nuclear remediation was done.

It's such a shame they let this place fall apart. Thanks for the pictures, the place is amazing and the shots are good as ever.

The round holes in the end of some of these were actually for turning them (notable the pieces with 2 offset holes) ... image a giant socket but instead of a wrench you would plug a pipe in and twist the whole section., not that it makes them any smaller or lighter. I am curious if you can say where the floor vent on the left went through too.

ok 3rd post ... I guess the brick building at the Cramp ship yard I named was taken down in Jan of this year to make way for a highway interchange...