Wait a second, where are we now?
Electrical devices with names of factories: one says sawmill and condensator, the other one brick factory and the third one box factory.
Even more facilities in the following blocks.
And all kinds of fairly strange devices.
Behind the scenes. Doesn’t look very functional anymore.
There were several electrical meters here. With the amount of oldfashined machinery in the area, I can’t even imagine, how much electricity the area consumed in its prime.
Because yes. This small hut was the transformation station of the entire historic industrial area.
The entire box factory area has been unboxed apart from the old main building still in use. Although there now was very little light, I still wanted to visit one location.
What I find fascinating about these old power distribution devices is the fact that modern ones may appear different on the surface, but still function in the exact same way. This year, a friend took me to a modern-era power plant that had been abandoned almost two decades ago, and although the equipment appeared to be state-of-the-art, once we opened up the cabinets and took a closer look, they all looked similar to what you have photographed here.
For extra credit (I briefly trained as an electrician in the fire department), the V is for volts, and the A is for amps. Based on the capacity of the switches shown here, this would be enough electrical capacity to run an average apartment building in New York City.
Well, this just proves, that if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it 😀
That thing ran a brick factory, a box factory, a cotton wool factory and a sawmill. Perhaps they didn’t use as much electricity in the 1970’s as an apartment building in NYC does nowadays.