Steampunk - Engine - Powerhouse 1905 - Side by Side
by Mike Savad
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Steampunk - Engine - Powerhouse 1905 - Side by Side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1905
Original Title: Merchants Despatch Transportation Co Machine Shop
Location: Despatch Drive, East Rochester, NY
This is the coal fire power plant for a company called Merchants Despatch transportation company. They made box cars for meat.
The facility was huge spanning some 66 acres. And this was the power plant that ran the place. It's not known if it ran belts for the machines, or ran the motors than ran the machines.
I like that they have actual guard rails around the wheel, and look at all the oil pans, it was underneath everything. I'm not sure why one of the oiler's had a different shade of fluid in it.
I chose fun colors, hard to say if the wheel was ever that color, but it should be if it wasn't. There was a lot of wash out in the original, but I think the back of the room was always kind of dark. And judging by what I assume are emergency lanterns, it was probably very dark at night.
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February 28th, 2019
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