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Naw my husband does that ;-) but I have learned alot from you from reading the comments and Motts shows me places I will probably never get to visits.

The only reason I can think of is to keep sewer gas from backing into the building, it's up to the overflows, odd way of doing it though.

Those appear to be damper doors.
The rate of fire at the coal beds is controlled by the draft over and under the coal bed, hence the damper doors.
"Peabody" still makes combustion control devices and equipment.

Imagine the size of those boilers? probably 3 stories or more.

This looks like a pressure reducing station where high pressure steam is taken down to medium or low pressure for other uses.

The spaciousness of the area! and alone sits a fixture.
Man!! I love those archways.

The fire box blower is top center and the fire box is bottom center.
This is definitly a "Scotch Marine" fire tube boiler

This is a fire tube boiler, most likely a "Scotch Marine" type.
The tubes are called "passes, this is where the gases of combustion flow to heat the water contained inside the shell. What you see here is the rear door and tube sheet(the water is behind this tube sheet), the large opening is the first pass and the main fire chamber, the smaller openings are the other passes.
This appears to be a four pass boiler.

waaaaa -- next to the last pix and I want to see 5,000 more of them. Great job Motts. See you in Nevada one of these days!

did you notice the orbs in the picture?

I would love to go along with them or even do this on my own, but I'm somewhat "sensitive" so I don't think I could handle something like this. I still haven't accepted it fully and still somewhat scared of this ability I have. My house and neighborhood has a lot of history, so I hear and see alot, even in my own home! I jsut tend to ignore it so it does not freak me out too much. but great photo! Keep up the good work

It is a shame that such beauty and such detail is rotting to nothing. They states should really look into restoring places like this. Like where I live, the mayor is more concerned on putting up a stupid stadium that no one wants that will cost the city millions of dollars to build. Try restoring the Smallpox hospital on Roosevelt Island first, or the Typhoid hospital on North brother Island, and even the 100's of years old building across the street from my house that is a piece of history just slowly decaying away. It is really ashame

I'm pretty sure Nick is right -- an early WW II sonar set, This must have been taken inside the sub chaser.

I don't want this to sound racists but it could have been at that time where the African Americans had to go for emergencies .u never know right ..it was all so different back then...

Old wooden hull tug boat -- this one has to be close to 100 years old -- if not older. I don't think they made any tugs with wooden hulls after the 1930s. Too bad this antique is beyond restoration.

It's amazing that the bow has rusted completely through so that you can see right inside the ship. This one must have been built with very poor steel -- possibly a wartime rush job.