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Furnaces

Furnaces

The coal bin is up on the top left, where the chutes would dump the coal onto the moveable crane underneath, then it was shoveled into the furnaces on the right.
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Did this serve the entire complex?
silkster40z
Mon 10-10-2005
Yup, a network of steam tunnels connected to every building to supply heat and electricity.
Motts
Mon 10-10-2005
Jeez, you'd think old man Freddy Krueger would work in there. But really it's awesome.
mudfoot77
Thu 10-20-2005
Wow! Looks like a mix between the Centeral Islip State Hospital and the Pilgrim state hospital power plants.
Jared 'ECUE'
Sun 11-13-2005
This hospital is surely creepy. Not as much as Danvers though. It looks a bit more modern. I still don't like it.
poisonousxbeauty
Thu 11-17-2005
sounds like a pain in the butt
Dana
Tue 02-21-2006
Wow, that reminds me of Gothika, quite a bit.

&& it's very creepy looking.
Messiahâ„¢
Fri 12-22-2006
It's interesting that they piped the steam all around for electricity rather than channel it into one big turbine & turn it into electrical power that could be sent through wires?

Was the steam just used for heating? before anything electrical was used here?
Richard Davies
Sat 04-28-2007
I doubt the steam was ever piped around for uses other than heat. I'm sure the electric was generated here and sent by wire.
scrapmanscott
Mon 01-16-2012

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