1,689 Comments for Eagle River Power Station

I am still in shock at discovering this site. I absolutely love old power plants, and found/explored a few myself. This by far is the most amazing one i've seen, and the condition of it is what i'd consider to be mint. Keep up the awesome explorations and beautiful photography.

Sorry, they should be fixed now :-)

I can't seem to make this or any of the panorama's come up? Are they broken?

freeze

These are motor-generator sets. The motors are old General Electric's from about 1930 or so and are probably 25-30 Hp. Since there are 3 units, I am guessing they were used to supply the DC power for carbon-arc movie projectors.

I feel like im going to fall backward looking at this.

if it makes you all feel any better I pressed one button and flipped switches for all of you.

Of course the power was turned off when I went.

i think i feel a 3d model coming on....
nice photo!

This Is the backside of the control room

This plant is still managing part of the power grid, these functions have now been moved completely out of the old plant and to a newer building on the same site.

I finally made it into this place and it was amazing, However the control room has been conpletely re-routed so there are no more active connection inside.

Julie

Motts doesnt give location information out at all. It helps protect the integrity of the site.

Pity, I didn't think they gave anything away as far as location...and it was an interesting bit of info...

Just about every power plant has connections to the power grid that allow it to take in power when the generators have to be shut down for maintainance or emergencies. This allows the facility to keep lights, controls, pumps and other critical equipment operating. Without operating generators, the plant is just another industrial building that uses power from an outside source (but it has some cool stuff inside).

By the way, it is not that unusual to see power on in a seemingly abandoned building. There is hardly any land in the USA that some private entity or local/state/federal govenment is not responisible for. The land is probably owned by some real estate holding company that pays a custodian to check on the building once in a while and keep the power on for security lighting and fire alarm systems, etc.

Most likely.