The Boiler Room

Ok, to celebrate the beautiful weather yesterday, a couple of friends and I went wandering around town to find an interesting place to take a few photos. We wanted to shoot someplace different. We ran across an old derelict factory that was in advanced stages of decay. Parts of the flooring where rotting away, we didn’t want to test them and end up falling into the basement. One of safer and accessable areas was the building that housed the boilers that were used to heat the factory. Up until about 15 years ago the boilers were in operation. It’s amazing how quickly nature was reclaiming the building. Kinda like the show on the History Channel “Life without People”.

This is a shot of the doorway from inside the boiler building.

The hallway that runs beside the massive boilers.

The end of one of the decaying boilers.

These coal fired boilers were huge, probably around 2 stories tall. Parts of the boilers had been scavenged for the steel and what was left of them was decaying from exposure to the elements. Part of the roof had collapsed and part of one wall had a ten foot hole in it. The overall building was probably 40-50 foot tall.

The handle on the door leading into the boiler building. I liked the texture of the paint and the metal.

Two giant windows in the corner of the room.

In the back of the boiler room there was an area where trains would dump coal to fuel the boilers. In that area stood a single chair.

 It was a fun afternoon, but spent a too much time afterwards picking stick-tights off my jeans and sweatshirt. FYI, Stick-tights are those pesky seed pods that attach themselves to you as you walk by.

Can you believe it? Two posts in one week. 🙂

-Ken