1,689 Comments for Eagle River Power Station

That door is a fire door. It is suppose to stay shut. If a fire breaks out air flow will be cut off.

those are small generators most likely to provide power when needed for the power station

ether i am seeing things or that is a small air compresser on the left.

that clock is awsome mr.motts

Ahhhh I'll dream sweet dreams tonite :-)

It looks like the tall cabinets were probably the original 1925 controls and instead of tearing them out altogether they just put a newer controle center in front of it.

Motts mentioned that some of the transformers had power humming through them, and I bet the switches with the yellow caution tape tied to them control live switches and or transformers.

Ever played a game called Fallout? :)

Strange, full of controls but no monitors at all

Cool, an old Star Trek control room ;-)

damnnnnnnnnn! I am in love.

Man oh man. I'm loving this. THank you so so much.

MMMMMM,They still had power going through some parts of the plant....

What a site, was a view ! ! !

I have one of these in my factory. It's a frequency converter for 3-Phase power. It levels out the power so that some electric motors can run more efficiently. I have two shapers and I have to turn on my frequency converter before I can run them. It takes a min for the power to stabilize. I have these funky 3-phase light bulbs that slowly light up so I know the power is stable and I can turn the machines on. The real cool part is you can change the brushes without any tools, they just flip up. you can see it on this picture with the exposed ends on the on the closer generators. I've never seen frequency converters like these used on 480-volt 3-phase(common today) just with 550, like mine which is old school. I speculate that these where used to run some auxiliary motors in the factory (blowers, etc.)