781 Comments for Old Saint Nicholas Coal Breaker

I don't think it is a bolt,I think it is hollow,or a tube with threads on the out side. If you look at the other end of the pipe there seems to another one just like it, but with something screwed on the end.. Perhaps a saftey valve of some kind?

Part of a variable inlet vane mechanism, used on the entering air side of a centrifugal fan, in order to control the total CFM the fan delivers. It's hard to tell which part this is, but if it's the "variable" part, the vanes would rotate via external linkage, and would be set via a locking hand quadrant. Since part of the locking quadrant seems to be in place, but is not linked to anything, this appears to be the non-adjustable part of the mechanism.

Nice picture.

I love how nature has a away of adding beauty to an old abandoned building.

Great angle, love it!

That is awesome :)

Does anyone know what the exterior of the building was made up of? It kind of resembles limestone but those buildings generally don't stain as badly as this shows - but I feel that could also be blamed on the coal dust mixing with rain water?

So pretty - I concur on the wallpaper!

Interesting note Buffalo Forge also made forged iron woodstoves and other forged iron products. My parents have one of the woodstoves - same logo is stamped into the face plate on one of the doors.

What an interesting history of this machine's use, and how it worked.

oh,and don't break your leg in an old building

great job,keep it up

army missle testing?

nature takes all

that would be so cool to hook up a generater to it and freak people out in the middle of the night

help! im sliding down a coal chute!

is that a power swich or a fire alarm?

looks like dried up toxic waste. was this a secret nucler plant?