While the most stunning power plants were built almost a century ago, the majority retained nice features until the 1950s. This facility was built in 1948 and checked most of the boxes. The turbine hall and boiler house were lined with beige tiles. Block windows throughout the building lit up the plant's most important features. A single central control room monitored and managed all of the key components including turbines, boilers and auxiliaries. Two Westinghouse turbo generators, installed in 1948 and 1949, are lined down the turbine room. Each unit was capable of sending 40,000kW to the grid and steam was delivered to the turbines via four coal-fired boilers.
The power plant was shut down in 2002 and sat completely untouched for almost 20 years until demolition began in 2019. The property was sold to a scrap team and it was slowly rid of all its character until the building was torn down brick by brick.
Here's some digital photographs I captured at this location over the last few years.
1. Turbine hall, unit #1 in foreground
_NIK3621-HDR by
jaksonstuff, on Flickr
2. Boiler #4 face, coal feeders and feedwater pumps
_NIK3633 by
jaksonstuff, on Flickr
3. In between boilers #3 and #4
_NIK3571 by
jaksonstuff, on Flickr
4. Computers in central control room
_NIK3560 by
jaksonstuff, on Flickr
5. Central control room looking towards boiler control panels
_NIK3565 by
jaksonstuff, on Flickr
6. Central control room, turbine #2 bench board
_NIK3563 by
jaksonstuff, on Flickr
7. Central control room, operator's desk
_NIK3558 by
jaksonstuff, on Flickr
8. Turbine #2 and #2 Elliott condenser
_NIK3578 by
jaksonstuff, on Flickr
9. #2 Elliott condenser
_NIK3572-HDR by
jaksonstuff, on Flickr
10. #2 turbine and safety sign
_NIK3618-HDR by
jaksonstuff, on Flickr
11. Turbine hall, #2 turbine in foreground
_NIK3630-HDR by
jaksonstuff, on Flickr
12. High pressure to low pressure crossover piping, unit #2
_NIK3635-HDR by
jaksonstuff, on Flickr