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Can you just imagine the deafening grunts and groans of this machinery on the day they pulled the switches forever.
LucieLou
Fri 11-05-2010
Must have been extremely loud & HOT!
Another timeless photograph. It's my new background. Thanks Motts!
Junkyardave
Fri 11-05-2010
Incredible shot!
Perfect wallpaper, thanks!
A D Nilsen
Sat 11-06-2010
Sad how places like this will never exist again.... over 100 years of life, passion, work, sweat and tears....gone! It's truly a time and era that none of us will ever experience. A time when men were men and work was real work. Too all of you work and sweat for a living I thank you all. I also thank you too Motts for getting there photo's if it was not for you then none of use would ever see these places.
Canada
Sat 11-06-2010
See these engines working on youtube. Truly amazing
http://www.youtube.com...&feature=related
Jim
Sat 11-06-2010
great shot.
SrRaV
Mon 11-08-2010
Beautiful shot.
redinkreign
Tue 11-09-2010
That video of those engines working is pretty cool, they look like they only ran somewhere between 60-100 RPM from the speed of the flywheels in the video. That's not a very fast running engine. You can also tell it was insanely noisy, too.
1079
Tue 11-09-2010
I seem recall numbers on the old monsters where the giant flywheels were ran 60 to 70 RPM max to keep them from disintegrating. I think the new giant high tech ship engines can be as low as 80, then up to near 500. Heavier parts move slower.

Note the questions in the video about the origin of the engines. Done in a day when citizens cared whether we had a manufacturing base or not.
autoguy
Wed 11-17-2010
awesome shot, definitely hard labor lol
QUASHA
Sun 11-28-2010

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