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Smells Like Zombies.....

Yippee!!

Just how thick are those walls? The door frame looks huge

I gotta ask, who's idea was it to paint the bottom of the doors grey.

Not working for me, I'm guessing that it's more of the brutalist 70's makeover?

I like the cute little dog house up in the roof

I will make that my love nest, away from the zombies

PM is what we say in England 2pm or 2am pm being after 12 noon until midnigh then am means after midnight till 12 noon.

I believe this was in the area as shown in the next and previous photos, where there were those tall doors and empty rooms. If the coils had copper or other precious metal, they would probably have been sold or scrapped.

Sure I think it can happen at any place you really love.

It's fairly simple. Picture yourself eye-level with the lower left corner of the photograph. You would be staring at the handrail. From there, you could walk forwards until you reached the wall. To your right would be six or so steps. If you were to go up those steps and turn right, it would leave you facing a bunch more of steps (twenty or more). Basically, what your looking straight at is a wall, not down or up the center of a staircase.

cool!!!!!!!!!

^ i think they did....

Ummmmmmm...is that a shotgun on the floor under the table? lol

This time of year, I can remember walking into the Main House and the Christmas Tree, the snow that the cars turned to slush, little Scotty schneider throwing snowballs then getting his tuchus kicked, Mr DeMello and I having a blast, Annette riding every day, man was she dedicated, Sunnycroft Ranch then Sunnycroft Ponderosa, both like no other ranch resorts in NY State. Those sheepskin Jackets, those navy pea coats, Millers and Kaufmans for the riding apparel. Did Ester even have heat in her store/house? Mike's girlfriend sold clothing for John Myers of Norwich, she was a knockout blonde.
Artie and Miltie Karp. Glad I can still remember those days.

Happy Holidays Everyone from Sunnycroft, Ranch and Ponderosa.

the "o with a line through it" is actually the small Greek letter Phi (so Richard Davis was right somehow since the Cyrillic and the Greek alphabet have some common letters) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi which is commonly used as symbol for the phase of any non-DC current (well, DC has no phase, of course..) in electrical engineering and signal processing.

About the power factor/fault current limitation thing:
Line reactors have - afaik - nothing to do with the power factor, the power factor cos(phi) describes how much power e.g. an electric motor uses to spin in comparison to how much is lost (the so-called reactive load, in German we call it "Blindlast" which is imho a nice semi-metaphoric term) into shifting the electromagnetic fields which are generated inside a running motor. This energy is not actually used, but it has to be transported via the power lines anyways. Those power lines act as big resistors, and as any other resistor it draws current.
Now there's no way to "limit" this effect; the power factor is something specific to the machinery you use, it's specified as "cos(phi)" on the type plates of motors and other heavy-duty machinery.
You can't do anthing against reactive load (well, use other machines..) but you can measure it, and at least in Austria I know they do bill factories and other heavy-duty users seperately for it.

Line reactors are like huge capacitors (coils) to limit current spikes (and possibly frequency irregularities/spikes somewhat like an RC low-pass filter I could imagine). (@Motts: was there something like lage coils, somewhat transformer-like looking around?) But I am not sure if they are really are for limiting *fault* current, I would've thought they usually attenuate the spikes occuring when a generator is put on or off the grid. But then again, we didn't learn much about power engineering, more signal processing and stuff - and I suck at explaining, and even more so if it's something we were tought in German. So, sorry if I pissed anyone off who knows that stuff better than me. ;-)

@reddll: you mean Metropolis (1927) http://en.wikipedia.or...ki/Metropolis_(film)
This movie crossed my mind as well already ;-)
MOLOCH! (if you don't know what I mean, go, watch the movie, I think there's a version with English subs out there as well (the original text is German) however, I like the dream-scene about the 7 deadly sins and the grim reaper way better "Der Tod ist über der Stadt -- !") But I digress... anyhow, a movie worth having seen I'd say. :-)