781 Comments for Old Saint Nicholas Coal Breaker

try turning some on,see if theres power there.

try walking up those...good luck

looks like somthing congress would put war crimanals in. id love to put obama in it.

yeah,it the LCC

they look like they were used 5 minutes ago

Whatever this thing is or was, it looks like it's just given up all hope.

Motts you are the only person in the world who can make rusty machinery look photogenic and fascinating

It's not a bolt, it's probably a heat exchanger or something similar. It's connected by two flanges, and the mechanisms in front are valves. Steamfitter work. As for the caution tape, it might be newer. Maybe someone was doing demo, trying to scrap the metal when steel prices were really high last year.... Or it could say water, steam coils would be heating a water line in a heat exchanger, but the tape looks newer.....

That is weird. i thought you find these only in places like Hollywood, Hong Kong, and NYC

Ditto on the desktop, wallpaper vote. I bet it was not Green, if this place closed in 1963, it will soon be 50 yrs. Looks almost like a park now.

Probably lots of exhaust fans and vents to the outdoors. This process, no doubt created a LOT of coal dust. Grain mills can explode from dust, let alone coal. Motts has captured an era of the worst job in the world, can you imagine the heat, dust, noise. It must of been hell on earth, but then in the 1930's a dollar was a dollar.

James had good intentions, now thanks to Mott's China knows about all this steel :-) Thank You for the new gallery Mott's. Its a treat.

who owns the building and property now?

Wasn't it in a Sci-Fi horror movie? LOL

Art-wise, very nice again.
Tech side says; I think they are spacers used when perhaps a pully was changed on a motor. If the hole in the pully was larger than the shaft on the motor, you could install one of these to take up the space. Could be for weight calibration as well. Okay, I'm done.