1,689 Comments for Eagle River Power Station

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Any chance you will make a wallpaper out of this shot? It's fantastic.
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The name plate says Thomson Ammeter. The maximum amperes red line at 340 on the 600 amp scale. Too bad we cant read the bottom plates. Probably a gauge for each of the three phases.
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Notice the tile floor. Most of these old complexes had great tile floors that obviously last for as long as is necessary before being abandoned.
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as an engineer who has worked in (and roamed through with wonderment) both new and old plants - power, steel fabrication, etc. - these pics are, simply put, me, and i deeply apreciate and enjoy your considerable talent. thank you for the OUT OF THIS WORLD artisanry. i've been showing your work to all my friends (more of them are artists than you might think).
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It's the sound of the steam rattling around at a highspeed that would cause someone t o spin that thing like a sea captain against a hurricane.
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The power in such big machines can make a person seem so small.
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It must of been hot when that turbine was in operation. I wonder if there is traces of sweat of the people who worked there.
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Yay!!! I love machines! I believe this one is a condensing unit.
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What you see is part of the condenser or a heat exchanger that is part of the condenser. The boilers themselves would have been further away from the turbine and the generator, with large main steam lines running to the turbine itself, spinning the turbine, and the turbine spinning the generator to create electricity.
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The C(I) reads as SF in Cyrilic, if you wanted to know.
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That stuff's called Dymo Tape.
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The only Magnum I can think of is the PI or the sort that removes your brain matter.. but I can't see how either of them relate in this pic so I guess I'm way off.

So, um, horrahs for Mo's and Point Five Ohs???
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When can we see Magnum? :-\

Awesome pics...:)
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infinity perfect atmosfpahre
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I'm very surprised at how untouched this plant is considering what city its in, and how the decay is all there is, amazing gallery, I will have to check this one out on my roadtrip of US places to UE