Interesting. The old power plant gets its power from somewhere else. That means, at some point before the plant shut down, they decided to wire it to take power not from the plant itself. Yet, since the plant was making power at that time, why get it from elsewhere?

Alternately, why wire the plant up for power after it's been abandoned?

I guess that'll have to do for a Lonely Chair Shot!

Ugh, I hate those dental impression trays! The plaster always triggered my gag reflex and I'd spit up a little. Blech, it's been at least 15 years since I've had one of those "torture" devices in my mouth, and I remember -exactly- what they feel like. Ugh!!

I understand that now it's possible to use lasers to precisely map the interior of the mouth, rendering these things obsolete. All I can say is, it's a damn good thing, and about time!

The screens above the doors on either side of the stage make me think that there may once have been a Theater Organ (such as a Wurlitzer) installed. Of course, if there ever was such a thing, I'm sure it's long since removed or trashed.

Are you sure this isn't the bathroom from Trainspotting?

Lynne,
That definitely makes sense. I still feel a great deal of unease looking at the photo! :) I think if there were even a single window there, I'd feel differently about it...

I'm not one of those people that's typically scared of basements, either. *shrug*

"The round building was inaccessible because of a collapsed floor."

d'oh! That, and the tower, were the two things I wanted to see interior pics of the most!

This dead-end basement hallway thing really creeps me out. Much more so than your usual spooky-scary basement pictures.

I think it's some combination of lighting, and wondering why anyone would ever sit in those benches towards the end. So uninviting. *shudder*

One of your creepiest machine photos yet. Something about the lighting on the dials below. Looks like it belongs in the "lunatic hospital" part of the game American McGee's Alice. Very cool!

All the light pollution on the left and in the distance is pretty neat. I'm surprised how much the fog came out in the shot.

Is that the edge of the moon in the top center?

Boy, if that street light had been on, it would have totally destroyed the picture!

I'm surprised how short of an exposure results in streaky stars. Admittedly, I've never played with a camera that you can keep the shutter open for indeterminate periods of time, either!

A neat variation on your normal pics, Motts!

Depth of field is pretty impressive here!

For some reason, the tug boats strike me as the most sad looking pictures. Seeing the other boats rotting doesn't affect me as much as the tugs.

I have no idea why.

How high is the ceiling here? It looks like you'd have to walk hunched over, but maybe not... no good frame of reference.

Cool shot!

Those structures exist so that if the trolley pole jumps the wire, it'll fall into those structures, rather than bang into the roof. If the trolley pole were to fall against the wire and hit the roof, this would keep the current from shorting out on anything grounded in the ceiling.

Motts may not be a "choo choo" guy, but I am. :-)

My experiment!!! You ruined it!

I agree with Jill B-- it's some sort of vacuum device.

The electric motor below used a (now-missing) belt to drive the vacuum pump at top. Looks like a valve above the pump, there. The right hand side held some sort of glass jar, as Jill says.

As for its medical use... I really can't imagine...

Heck, that one switch is already set to "on"...

I'd recognize that Old Sturbridge Village grasshopper logo anywhere!

I saw what appears to be a RedSox sticker on the last photo... on the green iron lung.

This must be somewhere in New England.

"my grandmom had one just like this"

Heck, the house I grew up in has a sink with faucet just like this. In the basement, in the laundry room. The house was built in 1941, for reference...

The overpass was destroyed to allow taller freight cars through the active rail line in the foreground. Evidently, tearing down part of the terminal was cheaper/easier than re-grading the line lower.