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I'm sure the noise here punctured a few ear drums over the years

not something to mix cake batter in

Hey flushed, it's good to hear from you again. I alway enjoy your comments. For someone that's been through what you've been through you have a pretty good head on your shoulders.

When I was a steamfitter apprentice I was walking into the paper mill we were working a shutdown on. We all had to walk this same path into a door through a 10ft wide corridor full of pipes above and on each side. One day walking back in with whatever I had been sent out to get a steam line blew out 3 feet in front of me it took me another step to stop. Turns out an elbow has blown.

The degradation of pipe under the conditions it is used are known factors quantified down to the millimeter. As is fairly normal in industry the mill never replaced pipe when the calculations for use dictated they should be and waited for a failure to occur before doing the absolute minimal repair.

Anyway I did not get hurt but I shook for a couple of hours.

it looks like electrical conduit for control wiring.

I've decided it must have been the Thomas Edison documentary that just ran on PBS again that makes me think I just saw this. In part of it he opens an iron ore mine in NJ and build from scratch a whole new process for separating the ore. He ground the ore to dust and ran it through magnets to separate the iron ore from the rock it was embedded in leaving him with ore that had less by product in it.

Looks like almost all of that is electrical conduit aside from the natural gas line.

There is probably a chain fall hoist above that tank for use to remove the top for maintenance. At a guess because of the size of the chain links its an electrically operated one.

I believe that is the Big Dipper and the North Star barely shining through.

For me it was all the lies and deceptions and manipulations and beratings for not getting the stupid cruel jokes being played on me that started to turn me off on Christmas. I eventually separated that crap and the people who perpetrated it from the holiday itself. Religious or not its a good idea to do that at the end of December.
I don't hate Christmas I hate the scum who destroyed Capitalism and created this sick mess posing as Capitalism while constantly telling us how good it is.

Yeah Tootuncommon sure built to last - and here i am 05.00 in the morning looking at this - and it is already Jan.25. For U 24th still, - go figure.
I love this picture - are they BLUE the tubes in background?

Thank you so much - this is so fantastic. Thoroughly enjoyed every picture, and thank you also so much for valuable info + all dedicated followers be most helpful too at times. It is an experience.

Yes they are fantastic the engines and so IS this picture.Just GREAT
Thanks also for the link to be able to HEAR them. It is VERY loud indeed but it is also a very beautiful oiled smooth sound. The guy in the yellow hard hat just standing there watching the wheel turn is so good - they loved the machines truly methinks, and were proud too. I watched twice. 7.057 people have seen.

Great gallery! Sad this is being torn down.

Yes it really is wonderfully cute. Probably quite heavy and made a lot of noise when pulled. It looks like it is leather on the spoked wheels. So old-school