1,689 Comments for Eagle River Power Station

on the control panel there is was looks like a pair of filp flops...lol.guess the controlman forgot them when he went to the beach!

yeah; i'm in live with this old industrial places. It makes me think of the PC game Fallout...

Am I reading this correctly?

To me it states that the Maintenance division has only gone 82 days without an accident but the machine shop has been over 1880?

Comments regarding the photography, the sites, and how these photos may have made an impact are always welcome.

Ohhhh, (sigh).. enough with the game references, Don't you guys appreciate the history, (and yes, the pain, suffering, & just possibly a shred of decent history too), of these places? The beautiful architecture? The wonderful artistry of Motts' photos? the things to be LEARNED here?
Why does (most) everyone's mind automatically jump to the fictitous horror of the gaming/film world, gore, death metal, the desire to destroy and 'tag' these places? I used the word juvenile before and expected to get my ass jumped for it, and told how high and mighty I was acting... (probably still will), but can't we read a little of the homepages first about what the intentions of this site are? The comments get so stale. Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Saw, secret burning of bodies, canabalism, abuse of patients for the 'fun' of it, what sick fantasy is next? Really it's getting so old and silly and takes up so much room for such empty commentary. Don't hate on me, just be realistic. It get's to sounding so dumbed down. I'm not pointing a finger at you N8, either, so don't jump on me - TOO many people leave these same, empty comments.
can we start getting back to comments about the sites/pictures?

Resedent Evil all the way!!! I love abondon factories!

-rewires one into a flux capacitor-

*waits for Dr E Brown to show up screaming* 1.21 JIGGAWATTS!!!!!!!

For some odd reason, this pic reminds me of the inside of a pachinco (sp?) machine that I rebuilt a few years ago.

JT, thank you for all your technical knowledge!

Good to see photos of these places are taken before the scrap merchants and demolishers get in. Also a good idea to have hard copies of these photos for posterity. Mr Motts, unable to say how pleased you're doing this.
I had an opportunity to save 1920's 40 horse power electric motors from a filtration plant that were in working order along with the pumps and compressors they drove.
Art deco design, open frame. These were not common motors in that they used slip rings to deliver 3 phase power to coils in the rotor, the rotor had another set of coils connected to a commutator, the brushes on that commutator connected to the field coils, works like an auto synchronous motor from the 1920's era. I lost that opportunity. I still have the photos of them, all brass polished and working before the scrap merchants got them ): The local museum had the opportunity to pick them up. I'll never forgive them!
They were rear by design, type, age and that fact they were in use right up till 5 years ago.
The station modernized with boring functional soulless motors in a art deco building. There was a few tons of brass, copper and history that went out that day.

A wet rainforest of metal, rust, asbestos and a traffic hazard cone.

Looks like some one went round with a can of that expanding foam to keep the water out of the motor windings to reserve it. If it's the same stuff we use here, no more gaps I think, who ever is going to remove it will have a hell of a job unless the windings facing the vent were lined with paper or something cause that stuff is hard to get off.

Wow, this place must have a number of boilers to have all those blowers!

Boiler draught blowers. Going by the age, size. 20HP? 2 per boiler. Unable to see the 4th one.