1,689 Comments for Eagle River Power Station

Awesome work. Keep up the good work.

I am with chronus on this one,but the rib cage pic a good clue to the film.

This was the clue to the detention block 2 pic for info to the movie !

I have operated in a plant that was built in 1904 and most plants from this era spin the turbine with steam power but also use river or lake water as a cooling source for the turbine as well, the same way modern plants use cooling towers or build lakes next to the plant. The plant I worked was just as large and neoclassical in the main turbine as this one .If you like to see it and would be able to travel to the midwest I could help you out .th e plant has been updated and is still operational. However only the equipment has been remodeled the plant looks the same as it did in 1904.

The pipe size depends on the volume of steam needed to spin the turbine. we rate it in pounds of steam per hour. the pipes are arched to allow for the pipe to expand as they warm up when the system is on line. as far as size goes our plant uses 60" diameter pipe I have seen 48" 36" and 72" diameter depending on need

scuba is right ,I think that is called a ball and race crusher

I am a power plant operator and JT is right on target. the crushers are located inline with the boiler front and after the coal passes thru it is blown into the firebox on the boilers

could be a forced draft fan for putting more air into the boiler but hard to tell from this picture. could also be a fan for air movement in the coal storage bins

It is a "Plinko" machine. You just drop your disks in the top and see where they land at the bottom. :-)

THis looks like an impingement mill for the pulverized coal system...huh guys?

These look like the induced draft fans. They would help carry hot gasses up the chimney. There would be a heat exchanger somewhere in this assembly to send to the forced draft fans in the basement.

That's the suction side valve that has been semi-mothballed. They were probably going to use it elsewhere if necessary. But since it carried river (or worse) water, it was subject to rapid wear. When they took the main cover off that condenser, they never intended for it to go back in service. That was the end. These units are actually quite small by today's standards. Probably not more than 50-60 megawatts at the most. I doubt if they ran on steam pressures greater than 500 psig, if that. You don't really find the 100Mw and greater units running at 1050 psig until the mid-50s. These units are "cute." And the pictures are fabulous! I've got some pix of me at a 25 Hz unit in the 70s. I'll scan it and send it out one of these days.

Ooh, sorry, that's another condenser. The boilers are in another building (the one with the smokestacks. Got any pix of them? Iif there are, I'll find them.) I used to clean these things when I was a plant operator in the 70's. We'd always find them plugged up with algae and crabs. (...mmmmm...crabs!)

why is it in most abandoned places there's always a lonely chair

It actually took me quite awhile to figure out where this was, let alone what movie was filmed there. Don't worry though, the secret stays with me. I actually live rather close to here, but I doubt I will ever attempt to visit it.