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Can't believe it's still around, neat!

Thanks, right on! Yeah it's become somewhat of a hotspot for people to visit and getting pretty trashed these days, but what an amazing power plant - definitely one of the most incredible I've ever visited. Thanks for keeping it on the D/L (for now).

Some of it has collapsed, but there's a fair amount still standing. I believe support structures are holding up the rest of the walls. The owners use the island in the summer for tour groups and weddings/events, so you can visit it for a fee.

Thanks Jimmie, it is indeed a condenser unit, I've updated the description; great information for us who are unfamiliar with these systems!

Wow neat! I've always wondered what this place looked like when it was in operation, but haven't come across any photographs. Thanks for sharing!

Hi MargUcci, yes Mr. Motts is kind of a nickname. Your work place certainly sounds eerie - I've explored a number of hospitals that had recently closed or were kept barely alive, and they all had that same quality you describe. Flickering lights, water stains and beeping fire alarms... I find it way more unnerving than a place that's been closed for years. I hope your facility can get back on its feet soon.

Hello. I am guessing your name is Mr. Motts from other comments.

I have been looking at your photos for several months -- most specifically the abandoned medical facilities. This particular set of photos is poignant because I work in a medical facility that is failing. I walk through a working hospital with ceiling tiles that sag, elevators that don't work and signage over labor and delivery that dates back to the 1970's. The bulb is out over the L&D signage and the entrance there looks like something out of a Stephen King movie.

I have never commented before but these shots hit home. I can very well see my desk/chair still there (worthless even to scroungers) with the ceiling falling on them when the hospital closes. It is odd at least to guess that I may be the last person to sit in a chair at a facility like the ones you photograph.

This is the photo that is most like the staircase I remember from about 1950 ish. If it is the one, there is a doorway to a dining room near where the photographer is standing.

For a while I think we might have stayed in rooms just off a staircase like this one. In about 1951, until our accommodation was ready. Though I just don't remember where we actually lived. There were houses there for doctors' families, because we visited one a number of times. There were French windows, and a nice garden outside them.

This reminds me of the staircase I used to play on while talking to one of the cleaning staff - back in about 1950 or 1951. There was a lot of dark polished wood, panelling. And a room with a long polished wood table where all the doctors and other senior staff ate their midday meal. If I was spotted in the doorwary or on the stairs opposite this dining room, I would be lifted onto a chair next to one of the doctors (a cushion first being put on it so I coudl reach), and given a plate with some lunch on it.

Boilers are usually remote from the turbines and connect to the smoke stack - this is probably a condenser and this is probably a multistage turbine system. The condenser would be under the low pressure turbine it condenses the waste steam back to water for return to the boiler. The turbine(s) to the left of the big turbine are the high and medium pressure turbines, which receive steam from the boiler. The low pressure turbine receives steam from the high and medium pressure turbines (the big overhead pipe on the turbines) to use up the rest of the energy in the steam. At least that is the usual setup. :)

Is this place still standing

Cool pics. All of them. I worked 27 years in that place and left when it closed. But I don't know where it is. :)

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