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What a great set, Motts. I can't thank you enough for sharing your work with everyone. This is my new favorite! Thank you, thank you!

I really enjoyed this gallery Motts.
I love old industrial facilities.
Thanks so much! :)

Thanks Motts. This place is incredible.

Yes, thank you! I have a hard time deciding which I like better, the industrial locations or the hospitals. It's very tough to decide especially with your magnificent photographs.

that is a beautiful building.

Grate gallery Mr Motts well done.

What a grand building! Nice new set of pix.

Wonderful set. Thank you so much.

Thanks for more great photos Mr. Motts. I like the hospitals because they are a bit scary and you never know what might be in there - patient files, old equipment, etc.

Well Mr Motts you have done it again and done it very well aaaaaai might add. Thanks again Motts for making my day.

thank you!

A great blend of industrial and architecture! Something for everyone. Thanks so much!

It looks like it could be part of a college campus. Beautiful gallery.

Thanks you so much Motts for getting some photos here in Canada, I hope you get a lot more! This is a stunning and amazing building!!!

From all of Canada I thank you Motts!

i've passed this building a few times on the way to the falls and always wondered about it...now i can wonder no more. :)

that area of the continent is a treasure-trove of amazing old buildings like this that are just sitting and decaying.

The first time I visited the falls was on a bus trip. The travel guide told us to be sure and look at the falls at night "after they shut them down for the night" We all laughed, but the water flow at night is very definitely less. Motts you provided a great explanation of why and what causes this. So I guess they do "turn off the falls for the night"
Thanks for the new group of photos. I also had wondered about this building when visiting the area. Now I have answers.

Thanks Mr Motts

Thanks for the awesome gallery, Motts.

This is a great photo essay - given the kind of garbage they build these days, for just about any building type, I am always baffled at the efforts they used to put forth in antique architecture...ESPECIALLY for industrial/municipal purposes like this - my favorite shots are those of the ornate fireplace and doorway, but tops is the shot of the oval MARBLE walled room looking out towards the generator...Really great stuff, Motts! (For what it's worth, I send you as much traffic here as I can find - most people are stunned when they see it...)

Thank you again Mr. Motts. You've posted another reason I come to Opacity each and every day. The galleries, the comments, the forums, all hold my interest for hours on end.

Thank you so much for sharing! This is one of my favorite galleries. :')

Thanks alot Motts for the new gallery to see everyday. Keep up the Wonderful work you do.

Thnx for the great shoot Motts! I'm sure the experience on the floor grate had made an impression on you. The hazards at that location are tremendous, as I've seen on postings from other explorers. Surviving the vertical drops under that facility is not likely, and accounts of the crumbling stairways and ladders are very sobering. Even those using professional climbing gear undergo great risk, and some have actually reached the discharge tunnels. I can imagine what went through your head after you discovered how that place built, and it's likely something you will never forget!

Please make this Wallpaper Thanks Motts.

Sets like this are what keeps me coming back for more, simply Awesome!

Thanks for being you Tom, your photographic art and devotion to it is unsurpassed. Keep up the awesome work!

Peace,

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Thank you for posting this gallery. I am an oldtime engineer who'se worked in hydroelectrio plants for many years. Last month, my wife wanted to visit Niagara Falls. We rode there on our old BMW motorcycle. A lot to be said for riding a long trip on a motorcycle you;'ve owned since it was new some 34 years ago, and which has parts in it you;ve made in your own machine shop. We got to Niagara Falls and had a wonderful time sightseeing. We did see the old powerplant in the distance and I really wanted to know more about it. No information is out there for tourists, I guess they figure toursits do not care about old powerplants. Your website is the best tour, something that statisfied my curiousity and was like walking in a familiar place. Any powerplant is special to me as it is a place where electricity is (or was) generated. I cannot help but wonder what the power made in an old plant was used for: who was born in a hospital powered by it, what industries did it power and what did they make ? What were the engineers like who designed the plant ? What was the construction and the times like ? A powerplant is hallowed to engineers like me. Thanks for showing it to me.