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A big paper mill requires lots of steam to keep warm in the winters. This room would regulate the steam flows to the various buildings. EB Eddy/ Domtar
Burlington Northern locomotives that power locals out of Rochelle, Illinois, rest overnight across from the steam plant during a snowfall on December 30, 1995. Both are extensively rebuilt EMD GP9s and are now called GP28Ms, and were remanufactured in 1993. BN Nos. 1533 and 1538 are former Northern Pacific GP9 Nos. 225 and 283 respectively.
Burlington Northern SD9 No. 6100 rests overnight at Rochelle, Illinois, on February 17, 1996. The vintage locomotive was built by EMD In February 1954 as Great Northern No. 573, equipped without dynamic brakes and set up to operate long hood forward. The steam plant in the background is now gone, but No. 6100 was luckier, as it was rebuilt into a SD9-3 in December 1998 to serve the new Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
The plant was originally constructed in 1906 to power Seattle streetcars. Eventually the streetcars were discontinued, and hydropower displaced it. The plant last produced power in 1953. It is now a museum open to the public on the second Saturday of the month.
There is a lot of fencing in this image. Happy Fence Friday!
The tool bench at the Georgetown Steamplant Museum appears to be missing some tools. The plant last produced electricity in 1953, 70 years ago.
The Georgetown Steamplant in Seattle. It was built in 1906 and has not been used as a power plant for many years. I can imagine how busy, noisy and dirty it was in it's day.
The Georgetown Steamplant was orginally constructed in 1906 to power streetcars in Seattle. As hydropower developed, the plant received less use. It last producted electricity in 1953. This scene is lit by old fashioned lightbulbs and natural light.
The University of Minnesota Southeast Steam Plant along the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.
A cold night to begin 2022. The sun has just set leaving some color in the sky.
The plant was constructed in 1903 to provide electricity for the Twin City Rapid Transit street railway system. It supported the area's major form of public transportation for 50 years.
Minneapolis converted to buses in 1949–1954, and in the early 1950s, Northern States Power Company (now Xcel Energy) acquired the building. The University of Minnesota purchased the plant in 1976 for $1
50 years ago I worked at this plant when I was a boiler operator for NSP. It was operated by crews from the Riverside steam plant and was used only on excessive power use days.
Norfolk Southern's prototype AC44C6M duo, unit numbers 4000 and 4001, leads 105 loads of coal towards Duke Energy's Belews Creek Power Station. A full moon has just risen above the horizon as the train crosses the Mayo River near Stoneville, North Carolina, on the former Norfolk and Western's Roanoke to Winston-Salem "Pumpkinvine" line. Winter Storm Jonas left the region blanketed with frigid precipitation, which gave the train the appearance of being loaded with snow.
I took this going 70mph down the interstate "in the passenger seat". This is Kingston fossil plant just outside of Kingston TN near Knoxville and is also a popular location for bird watchers.
Some manner of control panel inside an old steam plant, looking a little like an abandoned cartoon robot.
A large open space in the old steam plant. Much of what was here has been stripped away, including the asbestos, I think, I hope.
It was a morning with dark rain clouds, perfect for a gloomy shot like this. And yet, with all the rust and graffiti, the old steam plant actually is a vibrant place, once the eyes adjust to the shadows.
Last look at the old steam plant.
The broken broom is so ironic/cliched/metaphoric that I assume another photographer put it there … perhaps even took the head off first.
(Extra credit would have gone to him or her for writing “Hercules” on the broom handle … the fifth of 12 epic labors of the greatest hero of Greek mythology was cleaning — in one day! — the Augean stables, which housed a thousand cattle and hadn’t been mucked out in, like, 30 years.)
Control knobs at the old steam plant. Would you guess that it was a cloudy, rainy morning? It’s possible to make a chiaroscuro with soft, indirect light. It's just ... softer.
Something’s obviously missing here. The question is whether the officially sanctioned demo team carted it off or someone else later stole it for scrap.
Inside a long-abandoned steam plant. It was a dark and rainy morning, yet the windows seem blazing bright, which shows just how gloomy it was in here. The light-dark contrast probably would have been unphotographable, had I succeeded in sneaking inside on the bright sunny afternoon the day before.
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Without any doubt, views are often the most interesting when conditions are rather harsh and it takes a bit of determination to go out and take some photos. I thought a bit about camera settings before stepping out of the warm car to take these.... but once outside i didn't feel like staying longer than I absolutely need to and it may show.
Among the fascinating but photographically also challenging elements of this place is the constantly changing colorful and bright light outside the gas station.
Likewise, the steam from the recently rebuilt steamplant is moving and changing fast, a challenge for stitching and also capturing, because it wouldn't look "right to me" with longer exposures that would otherwise allow for better image quality.
Duke Energy's "Plant Marshall" is at the ripe age of 52 years and still keeping the lights on and homes heated in North Carolina but not without coal, seen here as NS 745 awaits a crew to take it Westbound with NS's recently released 4005 leading.
The weather report tells us that more snow and cold temperatures expected over the next couple of days.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe GE C44-9W (Dash 9-44CW) # BNSF 4302 brings up the rear on another huge manifest as it rumbles across the viaduct.
Those who know Spokane may well be familiar with the building that a incorporates the two illuminated chimneys. The building now acts as a bar, restaurant and hotel but was previously as its name suggests a steam plant providing power for the municipality. It was an unusual concept and provided heat throughout the city via huge underground pipes that carried the generated steam. After seventy years of generation it closed down in 1986.
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Massive steam plant at a former Long Island psychiatric hospital.
If I read the layout correctly, the two towers on either side of this image took coal dumped off a trestle on a nearby railroad siding and hoisted it up into the plant.
Just like the first psych hospital I had stopped at that day, my plans to get inside were thwarted by comically bad timing — this time a brush fire nearby that brought various security and law enforcement types screeching up to my position.
Ah well … there’s always tomorrow.