433 Comments for Franklin Power Plant

Like so many of these buldings that are on this sight time really does seem to stand still. In these bulidings however the world does not.... It's sort of tragic in a way.

This office is grungy.

Look at that air conditioner on the wall. It looks like it will crumble at any moment.

There is still writing on the white board. These people left in a hurry.

Those purple chairs are so ugly. The seating portion of those chairs are very short for the buttocks and legs of a human body.

The pinhead bosses who worked in this room were probably mean and angry people all the time. I am sure that they lacked all kinds of imagination. I can just see it now: One of the workers has a new idea to make things better and they getted LAUGHED right out of the office.

What a scummy office to work in or have to be around for any reason what - so - ever.

I would avoid that office like the plague.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

The dark abyss below.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

That clock does say 9:15.

But is it A.M. or P.M. ?

I do not like the way that the room juts out over the clock itself. This puts the clock in a permanent shadow. This in turn puts a dark cloud over time itself. Time should be free and in the light of the day. The people who onced worked at the Franklin Power Plant probably did not look at this clock too often. They probably felt that they were being watched by someone in that room.{ {Look closely and you will see a loud speaker above the windows of that room.}} I bet you dollars to donuts that some of the workers were labeled "clock watchers" by some of the people who worked in management.

I have always HATED management !!!

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

The skeleton of the great wheels of industry.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

This photograph reminds me in a sickening way of the Nazi Concentration Camp called Dachau which is outside of Munich, Germany.

To be specific: this photograph reminds me of the Nazi gas chambers.

if you have never taken a tour of a Nazi Death Camp then you will not understand.

Signed: An American Soldier in Germany.

Most likely truncated so that they would not need to have aircraft warning lights on them anymore.

I'm with Tom, some of the power in the place (lights) may be on a timer. It could just be a security thing as well to make people think someone is still keeping an eye on the place, but who knows.

This looks like a plan to install a newer
generating unit at the station but the project must have not have been approved.

Plants like this often had huge steam engines driving the generators at first. Sometimes these machines were removed after they became obsolete and turbines were put in their place.

It looks like the brick work of the back of a long bank of boilers on the right. They
were built like this from about 1900-1910
perhaps.

It looks to me like those are burners that
would use heavy bunker C oil. The old boilers may have used coal before the
oil burners were added.

I wouldn't necessarily consider this facility abandoned. Sure the coal and oil-powered generating units aren't operational but the local power company still operates combustion turbine units on-site and also has transformers. Anyway, nice photos and a cool look at our industrial history.

you guys never cease to crack me up. XD

anyway though, I'm just dying to pull that thing. I wanna pullllllll it I wanna pulllllll it!!

That is uber creepy..I mean even creepier than some of the deep dark places you have photographed. For some reason it has that 28 days later feel to it. I would done some Resident Evil style investigating.