1,689 Comments for Eagle River Power Station

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I love the lamps...as usual....this time the doors too...I´ll have them.
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Light is on - that is always more scary.....
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Is clever to never do - not even ONE
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They are called motor generators used to clean up spikey power.
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Fantastic! Wonderful gallery. I never wanted it to end. I know its been posted for quite a while, but.....THANK YOU, Motts ! ! ! !
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eldokid - The pneumatic tube technology is still alive and well.....almost every hospital in which I worked used the pneumatic tube system to transport specimens from the patient floors down to the laboratories. I've also seen it in use at some hardware stores - can't remember if it is Home Depot or Lowe's - but one of the chains use it. Also, a lot of banks use it to conduct transaction between cars in the drive-through and the tellers inside the bank.
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It looks like someone is going to be back at work any moment...notice the yellow hardhat still lying on the control panel ledge? Maybe just stepped out for a cup of coffee.
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I saw this post long ago and am back again today looking at it again. I actually have thought about this place for many years. Not sure why I'm drawn to it. I find myself saying (to myself) If I had a time machine I'd go back in time to say when a band laid down tracks for classic songs just to experience it. Same goes for this post, I'd like to go back to when this place was first in operation, here the sounds, the smells and the feeling people working here must have had in the early part of the last century, of harnesssing this kind of power and creating electricity. For some reason I always see me being here at night. Weird.
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He hot
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You nailed it, the place was like an industrial mega-church with impossibly high ceilings I could only dream about... it was truly fantastic.
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What a great picture. It's like being there in solitude, in a great church of the industrial age. That place is glorious in decay.
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this is an awesome picture
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Small generators. Used to work on home generators back in the day and that's exactly what they looked like.
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frequency meter indicated the hz out put, generators have to be run up to speed and synchronised with the grid nominal 60hz
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hv switch gear uses battery operated trip and closing coils usually 110v