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Central Command
'Wow' - was my reaction upon entering this room. This was mostly because I couldn't fathom how a place with so many gauges and dials could actually be operated efficiently, let alone without a critical meltdown. Reminds me of the 1950's US Space Program.
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7 comments for this photo:
Pete Anderson (Sep 15 2004, 3:20 pm)
Hey there son.... This is what your dad did for 30+ years... This room is small... You should have seen the rooms in the Nuclear plants or in various pulp + paper mills... Brings back memories... Dad
robert (Mar 28 2005, 10:14 am)
if you spread out all the buttons on your tv remote, it would get pretty big too!
funk (May 17 2005, 12:26 pm)
hal,open loading dock doors! im sorry, but i can't do that. totally reminds me of space oddessy! you can't help but think was the wrong button/switch ever confused with another or perhaps the fear of locating the correct button/switch at the time of need. I'm sure even with the extensive expierience of the people that needed to operate this equipment that human error must have prevailed on more than one occasion.
allied (Jun 10 2005, 2:03 pm)
I don't think it would be too difficult to remember what is what in a control room like this. For one thing, a plant like this has many generating units, each of which needs its own set of gauges and buttons/switches in the control room. So there are a lot fewer distinct controls than it would otherwise seem, since they are all duplicated for each unit. Also, if you understand what is going on in a power plant (which I cannot say that I completely do, although I have a pretty good picture), most of the indicators and controls have pretty logical, concrete meanings and functions.
allied (Jun 10 2005, 2:04 pm)
Nevertheless, this control room is an awesome sight! (Forgot to say that in the last comment.)
Bill (Aug 14 2005, 9:52 pm)
This is the electricl operations room. It's function was phased out in later thermal and nuclear plants. The electrical operator syncronized the generators and operated the switchyard. In later plants this became a panel in the main control room and the Turbine-Boiler Operator or Nuclear Common Services Operator did this job. So really this was not "Central Command".
Snipe (Sep 30 2005, 8:28 pm)
Stress and tension linger where sight and sorrows fail.