1,689 Comments for Eagle River Power Station

Imagine you switch the main on/of and the thing starts working!!??

I am assuming that the smokestack is still in place. The power to the building would be to light the funny red lights on it. Anything over so many feet tall has to have clearance lights on. It's an FAA regulation.

I couldn't resist, I'd have to push something, turn something, too cool.

I wonder if this explaines the functioning Fluorescent lights in the offices.

Looks like it could be the engine from the DeLorean in Back to the Future

Very, very cool.

So is "woderful"*sigh*.

"Sombre "is a woderful word where I come from.

hmmm, i wonder who that blur faced person with a hawk like hair cut and slevless shirt could be...

There's a powerplant in Melbourne (Australia) that's been offline for years - but still some of the control areas are still live. For whatever reason, it does seem common that some power is left routed through inactive power plants. Wonderful photos :)

With the dial marked as Motts describes it is a frequency meter. The US and Canadian power systems are operated at 60 Hz or cycles per second. A synchroscope is marked 'slow' and 'fast' and sometimes with the number of degrees out of phase. 0 degrees (pointer straight up) Is in sycnc and 180 (pointer straight down) is as far out of synch as you can get. Vinton is correct -- I have seen AC generating units where there has been a synchronizing accident. The damage can be anything from mechaincal damage to the turbine shaft & blades, to the generator, its circuit brekaer and transformer. Most modern plants have controls to do the synch and help prevent a synchroizing accident from occuring. I once added these controls to a generator about the same vintage as the one in this gallery.

Whack of Dials.. ROFL. Sorry. That was funny. I'm callin' them all that now. And, jeez. That's an ugly blue the control panel's painted..

I like the fact that the "randomly blinking lights" on teh conrtol panel on the right. Also, part of the huge arch through the mucky glass is eeeeery.

its a pump the water flows across the ceiling in pipe and and turns turbine as it drops spinning magnets producing electric

Motts...you never said where this plant is ..my hubby would like to know. He is pretty knowledgable about power plants, but he never heard of Eagle River. In U.S. or not?