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I thought this was an old transformer from back in the day, but it's just an old rust bucket. This site is a brownfield and the reason it's a brownfield (do NOT dig!) site is because it was once a Coke plant (coal-to-coke for foundry use) and then where WP&L made, stored, and refurbished electrical transformers (when the coolant of choice was PCB-based), and, lastly, the Main Beloit Sewer Plant (because... well... river = sewer... way back in pre-1950 times).
Amazing how we abused our resources back in the olden days, huh?
Shot with my 1st Gen, 1993, Canon EF 70-300mm lens. (All I took with me on the bike ride yesterday. Cropped out some vignetting in the corners, but remarkably good for its age.)
IMG_7694-001
I thought this was an old transformer from back in the day, but it's just an old rust bucket. This site is a brownfield and the reason it's a brownfield (do NOT dig!) site is because it was once a Coke plant (coal-to-coke for foundry use) and then where WP&L made, stored, and refurbished electrical transformers (when the coolant of choice was PCB-based), and, lastly, the Main Beloit Sewer Plant (because... well... river = sewer... way back in pre-1950 times).
Amazing how we abused our resources back in the olden days, huh?
Shot with my 1st Gen, 1993, Canon EF 70-300mm lens. (All I took with me on the bike ride yesterday. Cropped out some vignetting in the corners, but remarkably good for its age.)