1,689 Comments for Eagle River Power Station

This is a steam powered , boiler feed water pump, sometimes called a " terry turbine"

I believe it was the boiler area.

What was behind the tape?

What was the label on the switch with the tape?

Not even just ONE?

Must...push...buttons...

*puts on Deedee voice*

"OOOOH! What does THIS button do? And THIS button? Or THAT button? And that switch and that lever and that knob and dial and that thingy over HERE and that doohickey over THERE..."

"Hey, what was that funny sound? *sniff sniff* And what's that nasty stinky smell?...uh...oh..."

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I love this kind of shot looks great

Thats creepy...the place is long abandoned,yet power still flows through it....

How are the light still working after so long?

Looks like a giant gate valve in the center of the photo.

Terry was a manufacturer of smaller steam turbines used to drive auxiliary equipment such as pumps and blowers. The arms are linakge from the governor on the turbine to control its speed/load.

Well, this confirms my previous comment. the MG sets may have been used to charge the batteries. Batteries provided DC power for working protective relaying and circuit breakers in the switchgear and switchyard if the plant was off line and needed power to come back.

Motor generator sets. Could have been used as auxiliary exciters. The generators had their own exciters right on the rotor shafts. Another use for MG sets in an old plant was making DC power for the bridge cranes, as well as for charging the station battery banks. Any power plant had a large bank of glass-cased lead-acid storage batteries. These made DC power to work protective relaying and operate large circuit breakers when the generators were off the line. 120 volts or 208 volt DC for these purposes was common in the power plants.