Back in 2011, a group of local photographers were invited by Austin Energy to visit and photograph the newly decommissioned Holly Street Power Plant. We had a fantastic afternoon exploring the turbine hall, boilers and control rooms.
As is usual, I shot way more pictures that I processed at the time and I was pleasantly surprised to discover some gems as I was perusing the archive last week. I’ll run a few over the remainder of this week.
The first shows a row of springs in part of the mount for one of the turbines. I assume these are for vibration damping but perhaps some mechanical engineer out there can correct me.
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