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Quite amazing how a places like these operated aye.All the exposed cranks and soforth.How things have changed as we sit in our computerized control rooms with air conditioning and guards gallor.OSH would have a fielday here.

You know, I have 8x10 glossies of an old bottling plant that was in business locally, circa 1910 or so, and the lack of guarding was appalling, large flywheels moving with no guarding, open holes where a lift went thru, leather belts running off an overhead shaft,etc., and young boys of about 12 yrs of age working.

The contrast between all the greys/rust colors and the green is quite pretty.

Is the floor some kind of moss or mold? How about the sides of that machinery..... moss, mold, or fern like plant? How interesting and quite appealing vivid green.

I assume nothing had guard cases etc. to keep costs down..
To do that nowadays everything's just made of plastic

looks like some sort of industrial cannon....

I'm going to guess and say that was part of an oil gun. It's common for large coal fired boilers to be started with fuel oil. You spray the oil and steam into the fire box. The steam atomizes the oil and then the oil is ignited. Next you blow coal which is ground into a fine powder into the fire box. The coal dust doesn't really burn... it explodes. At that point, you shut off the oil and steam and the combustion will keep going as long as you keep feeding coal dust and air to it....

The cranks shake the coal bed to keep things stired up and drop the fly ash out.

Neat site; it appears I'm abit behind the main following. Having built power plants all my life, I believe these are the traveling water screens that remove debris, small fish, and the like from the cooling water used in the condenser under the steam turbine. The cooling ater never mixes with the steam from the turbine, but is condensed back to water and pumped back to the boiler. The traveling water screens dump the debris into a tray that is cleaned o na regular basis. Having been abandoned, the cleaning process halted and plant matter that required a little light and a moist environment has thrived, and thus the green. Usually these are below the level of water inthe Bay, so the intake and discharege tunnels and thus the water screens would always have a source of water even during abamnonment.