395 Comments for Toronto Power Company Generating Station

The first time I visited the falls was on a bus trip. The travel guide told us to be sure and look at the falls at night "after they shut them down for the night" We all laughed, but the water flow at night is very definitely less. Motts you provided a great explanation of why and what causes this. So I guess they do "turn off the falls for the night"
Thanks for the new group of photos. I also had wondered about this building when visiting the area. Now I have answers.

Looks like you're a levitator! Great shot.

Such an ornate building for a ultilitarian purpose, power generation.

I wonder if it was ever used for special events...

mott's dude, i would love to see ur pics of chernobyle someday down the line if you go. i was thinking of going but its an expensive flight ($1255 from logan) and its still a 5 hour drive from Lviv where the airport is. i'm dying to shoot a few pics of that place!!

Thanks gypsy it was the first thing I thought of when I looked at this ornate door and then behind it was this rusted leviathan peering at you almost to say “Come on in but you will never leave.”

Wonder if they worry about the old scow breaking free and going over the falls.

ok 3rd post ... I guess the brick building at the Cramp ship yard I named was taken down in Jan of this year to make way for a highway interchange...

Sorry .. IP Morris was bought by Cramp and CO in 1891 and closed in 1927 - The site reopened for some time in 1941 but I don't see a final closure date.

Thanks and ya there was a lot of cool places their from tank and helicopter grave yards to buildings in Kandahar as old as 1980s like the old Russian barracks to places hundreds of years old. As far as tanks and APCs go they where every where left buy the Russians, unfortunately so where the land mines. Well I will have to go though the pictures I got from over their and put them up in the forum if every one would like.

Very cool, the manufacturers of the valve system on this are the Morris family of renown for the Morris Arboretum at the University of Pennsylvania. The historic building site where IP Morris built ship parts for the William Cramp Ship Co. (before Cramp bought out the parts making) in Pennsylvania is slated for demolition soon and the company closed in .

I vote on this one for a desktop theme ... don't think it works that way, but the juxtaposition of the industrial metal against stone is awesome. It makes me think of the Parthenon if it had generators and the ability to make power.

There's no ducks but I bet there is some Canadian geese ... oh wait you mean physically huh ...

This just makes me want to post 8 is great ...

I wonder if its safe to go out to the boat?

i've passed this building a few times on the way to the falls and always wondered about it...now i can wonder no more. :)

that area of the continent is a treasure-trove of amazing old buildings like this that are just sitting and decaying.