395 Comments for Toronto Power Company Generating Station

It kind of does Ferdy! Lovely misty photo!

Thank`s for the reply. It must be hard to keep all of these different locations straight in your mind. Opacity is the best! Keep up the excellent work!!

I'm not sure if this is the real reason they're open, but I think that if a building is sealed in too tightly it can become overrun with mold in the summer months, leading to more rot and intoxicating the air. I've seen preserved buildings with air vents (or even fans) installed in the boarded up windows to ventilate the structure.

Yes, I was hoping to shoot Pripyat and Kiev this year but funds ran dry for an overseas trip.

Hm, tough to find a comparative image. I think my head reached the top of the words stamped into the housing. Here's a similar looking one with a human scale reference:
http://spiff.rit.edu/c...agara/niagara_2a.gif

The one in the illustration might be a bit larger than the ones in this plant though.

Man, you must have nerves of steel to explore some of these advanced decaying locations. You must be on your toes all the time checking to see if it is safe to pass over the rotted floors/catwalks. Awesome new gallery Mr.Motts!!!

If the bottom hatches are open, I don't think it would float even if the water rose that much.

Also (on an interesting note), if there was extra flow it might get used by the other stations; there are a few other hydroelectric intakes upriver, which draw in as much water as possible to produce maximum power. They are able to take in so much water that the falls are visually impacted - so a treaty was agreed upon to keep a minimum of 50,000 cubic feet per second flowing at the falls for tourism purposes.

The water flow is kept at the minimum during the winter months, and every night in the summer. The stations reduce intake on summer days solely for tourism, letting 100,000 cubic feet of water to flow over the falls. The water below the falls fluctuates 3 feet during each transition.

http://www.niagarafron...com/power.html#Facts

How tall are those generators Mr Motts? It`s hard to get an idea of the size of them. Awesome pictures as usual, and it`s neat to see some abandoned places closer to home.

Hard to believe it stayed there all these years, you'd figure the water would rise high enough during flood conditions to break it free at some point.

thank you!

Well Mr Motts you have done it again and done it very well aaaaaai might add. Thanks again Motts for making my day.

So beutiful in all of its old age ,a gracefull old lady

A memorial to the Industrial Age

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