Kind of reminds me of the gates to Auschwitz....

Nice Motts, looks like you got a great shot of one of the "Kenny Dumonds"!

I live about a few hundred feet away from this place and was very sad to see it go. The cheap housing that is replacing it has no character at all compared to the old Kirkbride! The primary component of most of it is cheap glue board; I'll will be very surprised if any of it lasts 20 years without developing serious structural problems.

Anywho, from what I understand Ken was a charge attendant at the hospital, he painted many of these around the place, the most numerous of them were found in the newer buildings (memorial group) on the other side of the campus. There was a room on the third floor in I do believe G ward that was full of scenic paintings just like this one.

Thanks for taking all of these! Makes me wish I went in a few more times to get more shots myself........

Hey Ludlum,
I think this happened at a lot of places. I myself live next to the former Northampton State Hospital; from what I understand, people that worked in the Kirkbride section of it went to work one day and were then told that it would be their last day!
From what I've been told folks pretty much just dropped what they did and left, which would correspond with what I saw in there.

Amazing shots- the expanse of this place is incredible! The shear size and the lattice-like iron work makes it look like the perfect place to shoot some kind of SCI-FI movie! Maybe "Terminator 5" :-)

Its a shower head, Liquid comes out of it to clear down the top so it would not be blood!

It looks like a mortician's aspirator, which I do believe can be used to both suck fluids out 0f a body as well as put them it (think formaldehyde).

Nice work, I went to grade school across the street and know some girls who went to Eden Hall but never made it inside.

The crank is for 'don't know whats it's called' the sifters. A tray with holes if you like. Like a mesh for sifting dirt.

If you look to the right near the door it looks like the outline of a man standing there. You could picture a nurse saying 'right you have 5 mins' and standing and watching! weird!

Photo from above. Can't disclose where this Eagle river power station is but this place looks awesome even from space. http://img.photobucket...one/PowerStation.jpg

Where'd the Coors Light go?

Dude, you're not blurry any more.
I'll credit Scotty for fixing the transporter later.

Any body notice the PC keyboard tucked under the desk on the left?

Vandals.

It's an exciter. Minus the stator poles. Probably the copper scrap merchants get here. Strip what they can and leave a mess.

Naa. It's reheated as it states.
High Pressure super heated steam from the boiler enters the HP turbine stages, exits and goes back to the boiler through separate tubes and is heated back up again though a separate set of tubes in the boiler and then goes to Intermediate Pressure "IP" turbine stages, then on to the Low Pressure stages.
Purpose for this as I understand it is to remove water vapor by evaporating it rather than waste energy by extracting it. Water vapor damages the turbine blades.

Dang, this office is more moden than mine, and tider.

Poor turbine, got that right. Those rotors are not light! Who ever dropped that would be in for serious disciplinary action if not instant sack. Drop turbine rotor-loose job. I see the LP stage is smashed. To replace one today (they are still made by the way) would be well in the 6 figures if not 7. Would be interesting to find out the history as to how it got there.

Are you sure Bob?
I'd put money on it they are oil injectors for a water tube boiler. I won't argue with the 3 story bit. In the really big plants they are 5 stories high. Sorry, you already know that.

Been to a museum that has 2 of them working.
Used to move tourists on a cable car.
They were originally used to haul coal carts.
Very quite.
Very low RPMs and loads of torque.
My vacuum cleaner makes more noise.

Good to see photos of these places are taken before the scrap merchants and demolishers get in. Also a good idea to have hard copies of these photos for posterity. Mr Motts, unable to say how pleased you're doing this.
I had an opportunity to save 1920's 40 horse power electric motors from a filtration plant that were in working order along with the pumps and compressors they drove.
Art deco design, open frame. These were not common motors in that they used slip rings to deliver 3 phase power to coils in the rotor, the rotor had another set of coils connected to a commutator, the brushes on that commutator connected to the field coils, works like an auto synchronous motor from the 1920's era. I lost that opportunity. I still have the photos of them, all brass polished and working before the scrap merchants got them ): The local museum had the opportunity to pick them up. I'll never forgive them!
They were rear by design, type, age and that fact they were in use right up till 5 years ago.
The station modernized with boring functional soulless motors in a art deco building. There was a few tons of brass, copper and history that went out that day.

A wet rainforest of metal, rust, asbestos and a traffic hazard cone.

Looks like some one went round with a can of that expanding foam to keep the water out of the motor windings to reserve it. If it's the same stuff we use here, no more gaps I think, who ever is going to remove it will have a hell of a job unless the windings facing the vent were lined with paper or something cause that stuff is hard to get off.

Wow, this place must have a number of boilers to have all those blowers!

Boiler draught blowers. Going by the age, size. 20HP? 2 per boiler. Unable to see the 4th one.