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weird some of them almost look like ancient egyptian glyfs

A good half of them likely didn't have a clue what was actually there.

I like it!! its like cordoning of the past.

Awesome. The differnt light makes the passenger are look supeimposed on the office section. Horror movie quality

Great pix !! but it reminds me of Nazi Germany for some reason...

Eewww, more ugly green paint.

The darkness in the room makes the paint look horrible.

John, re: your post of 8-18-08

I remember Tom Heathwood. He was asst. to the head nurse on ward c when i was there. Gene Veloux was head nurse. Two years since your post I don't imagine you're likely to see this but if you do let me know the year you were there.

Exciters.

Green and orange?! Ewww.

If they sured it up. It would make an awesome garden

Scooter has it right, IMO. The condensers are *under* the generator turbines, and this looks more like a chiller-type heat exchanger than a condenser. I could be wrong, but I don;t think so.

A great view of the other end of the condenser. The vertical line down the center is the demarcation for the direction of water flow; one side incoming, the other outgoing, with a partition of sorts in between, most likely attached to the missing condenser head.

I wonder if the paint was peeling like that when the place was last used.

It most certainly is a condenser. I was a nuclear mechanic on a submarine, and our steam propulsion and electrical generation worked on the same principle. Steam exhausts from the bottom of the turbine down into the condenser, and yes, there is a slight vacuum in the condenser, due to the steam condensing. What we see in this photo is the interior of one of the condenser heads, and as was stated above, all of those tiny holes in the wall at the back are condenser tubes, and the condensing steam passes around them.