Exploring Boston's Ancient Power Plant - 120 Year Old Control Room! 

They did have a short-lived ghost series, but true for the most part. Love this channel.

lol like that dumbass exploring with josh

​@@willypthree922yeah it was called bumps in the night or something. I liked it

I think they realize theyre too good for that, and i also have a feeling both are skeptics. I've seen them on occasion use some of these so called ' ghost tools' and they totally dont buy into it, as they should lol. Mosr abandoned channels may start getting into the paranormal stuff because they get more views out of it, or..if either they start to lose views and subs, but like i said i think they are TOO good at what they do to sink that low. Some have been subbed to them for 10 years, like me, atleast i think its been 10 yrs already lol, and i don't think they have ever lost the views or subs cuz they have been putting out quality almost from the very beginning. Thats why i've stayed for so long. Another reason is they don't try to be obnoxious like most other channels.

Yeah I liked it too. They said nothing ever happened so they stopped doing it.

today us-americans are known in the european states for having warnings in thier microwave manual ...not to put a guniea-pig for drying... well, in these days, they where a lot more intelligent PRE-1968 people... The hippies and leftist (teachers, univers.) dumbed most of the western societies down... IMAGINE (you will know that) EVERYTHING seen of tech. here was build WITHOUT a dumb computer! SKILL! pure skill and wisdom. Nothing you find today. Neither for architecual works. Well, as a watchmaker I have the right to be oldfashioned... (born in 1989 xD ) but it's more the style than to be "oldfashioned"

Thank you so much for sharing your experience! I so often wonder what it would have been like working in places like this.

As my grandpa still says to this day in regards to being electrocuted by things that big, "It's a once in a lifetime experience best kept to being a once in a lifetime experience" followed by his dry worn out laugh.

Today, all the government "red tape" slows down construction to a crawl.

Is it not all the safety precautions that make the process longer? curious

modern power plants have more tech in them. but yeah amazing how fast they did it back then

Labor protections?!?!? Who needs 'em! In all seriousness, labor was cheap, materials were plentiful. Building costs more today because it's generally a better finished product (bigger, stronger, faster) and we have a lot more labor protections. The US could have modern policy that makes things like housing cheaper, but that's a policy thing not a market thing.

@@aerosma5021 That and getting tons of permits and inspection certificates!

About 2/3 of it is already torn down. Rest of it will be down in the next month or two im guessing.

I think it's becoming an MLS stadium

No, it needs to be demolished and repurposed. The maintenance costs would be high and Visitor numbers/admission fees would not cover it. It would be just another burden on the tax payer.

@@AzureStarline What's an MLS stadium?

@@AzureStarline What's an MLS stadium?

Seeing some of the fixtures that will be lost...bummed thinking about what could be salvaged. I REALLY hope they let a salvage crew in to save....anything old and neat.

This kind of stuff is so cool, especially how the older areas were decorated. Also, 'current'... I'll see myself out.

@@JoeTheGreat Our building is up the street from this - former Navy machine shop, built in 43. We have one of the original cranes, no. 4. If you wanna see how it used to look, look up South Boston Naval Annex, Building 53. The other 3 cranes are still in use by the fishery and auto shop we share a building with. Those two share a maintenance department, and while waiting on an oil change some years ago, one of those guys told me that when they were painting the cranes, they encountered WWII era graffiti on one of them. Didn't have the heart to paint over it. As far as original building elements over here... the original substation is intact, albeit bypassed through modern equipment. There are a handful of original fixtures, and the original freight elevator was turned into an office - with the elevator button panel used as the room's light switch. Neat stuff. Oh, and an old, VERY loud, single tone raid/drill siren. We joked briefly about using it as an alarm on the can line, but that thing is.... way loud for anything indoors. Still have it, though. Much of the building has been modernized but there are little remnants here and there.

Sad Obiden is shutting these places down. We need to vote these crazy folks out of office.

That's cool, what job did you do at G.E.

Cathedrals of energy. Back when technology was still magical.

They are also becoming curators of the 19th and 20th century industrial revolution. I think over the last five or so years they have begun to realize their station in life. In the beginning, going places you know are forbidden is cool, right? But, then you realize preserving history has become a calling.

like this so they see it!! please!

WA is awesome secretly for places like these. There is also Satsop nuclear plant that was decommissioned, you can see the parts of the old stacks and some parts from inside, but it is no longer abandoned, so lots of new security hang around.

@@breannathompson9094 wow, i wish my country had abandoned stuff i could explore

@@breannathompson9094Satsop was never finished. They never installed any generating equipment and never got the reactors built.

I’d love to see Hanford, because my grandmother worked there.

One thing I'm not entirely sure on this but I do know that in some cases but not sure if back that far there would be needed to be a source of DC oftentimes DC was needed not only for control but also providing power to excite other equipment my guess would be some system will be there somewhere to provide DC for the station at one point it was actually more difficult to get DC power from AC. Sometimes this would be a motor generator or other systems and or mechanical rectifiers which is goes a bit beyond what is easy enough to explain in comments. But there's something rather interesting that I've seen in person this was below my old high school. No one really knows what this was but some people have their suspicions that it was something that well most people are not supposed to know about. But whatever was going on there it required a copious amounts of DC power. Some people thought that had something to do with the old tram system AKA trolley line. However all of the voltages were wrong. Plus that had been discontinued many years ago. This equipment was still being maintained and it was a mix of the old and new to keep the old working. Also this was the first time I've ever seen a working work your artwork rectifier in person at least the big ones. There was at least 20 different voltages. Most seemed non-standard! Is the interesting thing is they called where all this was a catacombs at least that's what it was known in the area what's the witch didn't even realize there's anything down there other than the school basement. Interesting thing to wear doors that opened from the wrong side could not be open for me inside the building. As well as there was some type of rail system very Narrow Gauge clearly Electric. Cargo probably more than likely. Sometimes the lights would flick right different times was down there with some people and they were saying about that time the power would be flickering keep an eye on the equipment. A lot of stuff would come on online when this was happening. Several people who did complain about flickering lights like a heavy load in the area at the same time so something was up. Also huge Banks of batteries. We know that there was some civil defense related stuff but this just takes the cake. There were stories of people just shouldn't be there just not a lot or even coming from a door that did not open from inside like I mentioned. But Blended in well enough that no one noticed unless you know what was going on. It's interesting that there was what looked like a light communication gear colored lenses and such and shutters in some areas where you wouldn't expect. That little league underground power distribution and DC conversion station really makes you think. Doesn't really seem like a bunker sort of thing it seems more like something else but I know that there was a bunker in the area of eons ago but it might have been connected with this as well slight chance of this. I was told there was access to some sort of Bunker through the building as well but I don't think it's the same passageways. One of those doors did go to a catwalk system it never ventured that way it was a bit scary Heights I was okay with the ones on stage for those not so much! In addition to the Mercurial converters what appeared to be motor generators and from what I could gather from some of the information about this was wide open in considering the last of his life front Supreme something authorized personnel only just signs saying danger high voltage and keep clear and indicating that the equivalent of livefront notifications. Although if we heard anyone coming whichever once in a while there would be we might see one of those rail cars come through being pulled by something we would just take cover since no one knows really was going on down there. Also some sort of pumping station my guess was dewatering tunnels as well as Banks of huge blowers that was probably just keeping air flowing in ventilation.. And in the area there were some things that seemed like air vents that would just go into concrete that didn't exactly stick out like a sore thumb. And there's one area where I know it was between two sections of the grid and things just went underground from both sides but never seem to go anywhere and I'm thinking that was where this was fed from. One never knows what goes on in plain sight this is not conspiracy theory people are still trying to figure this out from what I understand

Did you work for GSU?

Yes,!later Entergy

@@survivingworldsteam Grew up in S.E, Texas. GSU was a great company. Too bad they built that Nuclear plant.

@@jollyjohnthepirate3168 nuclear power and their cost overruns did in many a electric utility in that era. But I enjoyed my time working there.

those are pretty sick. mid 80s, 40 inch?

Most of modern power infrastructure is not densely populated with workers any more. You just have rooms with equipment humming away 95% of the time. Back in the day a plant like that was like a town busy with people. What a difference a century makes.

Glad to see your comments, Shane. I was there at that time as well.

Scanning the book and making it available online in pictures would be cool

Are you a lady with stunningly long hair? I adore those ladies who grow theirs that way, describe it please?

​@danielobrien1571 bro you're down bad horrendous 💀

The company redeveloping it has a website, Hilco Redevelopment Partners. Just search that with L Street Station. They're just going to turn it into modern mixed use space, sadly. They're doing the entire area around it, I think. And the station will stick out like a sore thumb from the pictures.

🤣@@danielobrien1571

Or a homless shelter 😮‍💨

I'm from the suburbs of Boston originally. The government of that city is a cesspool of communist ideologues. Historical revisionism runs amok. There is no regard to anything but pushing forward the agenda.

Exactly. You'd think that Boston out of all the places, would fight to keep history alive. Go figure.

​@@VitoVecciaIt's the whole state of Massachusetts. My ancestors slaughtered redcoats on bunker hill over very minimal taxes. Now look at the place...

Are you a lady with stunningly long hair? I adore those ladies that grow theirs that way, describe it please?

Not demolished. It's being redeveloped into mixed use. Look up Hilco Redevelopment Partners L Street Station.

That's where I live. I have always wondered what the inside of the power station that is on Superior St. looks like as well as the steam plant.

Schools used to teach penmanship. They don't even bother to teach the kids to write or read cursive writing now.

Me too.❤

That's a myth. Stray voltage on capacitors leak into the air, not the other way around. Now, there are some exceptions. For example, wind across the surfaces of plate capacitors can build up a charge. But it doesn't look like there was a whole lot of wind here.

This development group is doing way more right than any other similar project I've seen. Too many (basically all) of similar stature and potential have just been demolished without a trace left behind.

@@TheProperPeople that's great news to hear! These places should really be kept around. Make the building safe, and preserve it. Nobody does this kind of construction anymore. Once it's gone, it's only memories and pictures that keep it around.

I've been in a few historic things myself courtesy of the tours. This is kind of along the lines of this since steam power was involved! That and electrical power derived from Steam. If anyone's ever heard of the world's largest steam hoist somewhere in the United States. This is one of the places I went to many many years ago when I was much younger. Absolutely fascinating if you ever have a chance to go. And also another interesting place I still want to go back and do the behind the scenes tour is Biltmore Estates. Originally would have been powered by DC dynamos and battery power when the dynamos were not being run. This place was designed in such a way that if when AC power became available system could be switched over to run from AC and DC being generated locally from the AC power coming in it was meant to be future-proofed even back in the day. And there were items that would still need DC power even when the AC became available. Such as large Motors much more in addition. If I remember correctly some of the DC was used to charge smaller batteries for some of the other systems that Grand on low voltage. Although there were some the systems that are operated by what cell batteries probably something along the lines of gravity battery or otherwise something that would actually be a liberal battery jar. I actually have preserved a couple batteries I found at a place that had some old systems where to get this system up and working although doing other functions that used to but they like the look of it and thought it become nice to repurpose. Essentially kind of a control that annunciator setup. There's all kinds of interesting gizmos and gadgets from the Antiquity most of which were of course long unused. Oliver since remnants there it was easy enough to repurpose. This included an old electric gas ignition system for the original gaslights. Did they even have the old what they called pear pushes in the bedrooms operational or could be gotten back to use courtesy of modern parts but using the original wiring. Is rather interesting how the cabling was run essentially it was kind of look like horseshoe shaped pieces of wood or wood cleats for the low voltage almost like a low voltage version of tubing knob wiring almost but not quite more like open wearing on cleats. There was also a primitive fire alarm system in this place and Ashley was still operational apparently it has been updated with modern or at least more modern heat sensors and no clue as to what originally was the Sounder it had been retrofitted to a later system that had a large Mercury battery in some sort of sound or annunciator but I know those things made it real racket at literally Wake the Dead but then again it was a fire alarm so I had an alarm system. Who are the people I used to know when I was younger. They had this huge place at one time it was also split up and then back to a single residence. They had the same sort of system probably the same vintage indoor manufacturer. That is the one that had been cobbled into the original at the other place for sort of an update. Essentially how this one worked is that all the sensors they are on a Bakelite base some were painted red the housings metal few events at one end in the top cover. What does basically was was a large heat sink as thermal Mass. Coupled with a bymetallic thermal switch. Don't remember what the temperature rating was. The sensors themselves were wired in parallel no zoning or anything. The wiring him out at the Shelf in the upstairs hallway where is the original Mercury battery would have been a huge one. And the Sounder itself more than likely there was a switch of some sort the silence system if need be. And I was told that the system did actually still work and it had gone off a few times for some odd reason. And since this thing was obnoxious and also obsolete you know it still served its purpose originally. The wiring for this was repurposed. More than once. In one of the bathroom cabinets in all the bathrooms. And a volume control / switch as well nothing commercial made but DIY. And yes this has to do with the conversion of the system to something else. Originally they were using this to pipe audio through the whole place. Then the next thing was it was used as landline telephones extensions. Although the person that had done this didn't realize even though he had mentioned this that the sensors for the short the two wires if they went off rendering the phone system useless but then again you might need it back then you may not have been able to get to another phones and cell phones didn't exist not too many pay phones in the area either and other factors. Gods of the old sensors and needles to say after bringing it up got the rest of them and yes did one of using them for some projects rather interesting devices. Even use them in some homemade devices is overheat indication. Had one in my brother large dummy load for DC. In a couple of scratch built power supplies from Salvage components that ran rather hot but then again output control was essentially heating coils a big fat rheostat. One of which even used the fan out of a old heater as the cooling fans another one uses a scrapped in salvaged bathroom exhaust fan for this

That real estate near the water is just too valuable to have a power plant there. Consolidated Edison in NYC removed generation capacity from high-value areas and relocated it into less desirable places by increasing the power concentration in existing plants through technical upgrades. The land at the vacated locations was sold for billions of dollars.

Sad Obiden is shutting these places down. We need to vote these crazy folks out of office.

@@jaysmith179 💯

@@jaysmith179what the hell does Biden have to do with closing old contaminated buildings? I’ll wager money a local committee was the sole decider. And based on the age, and the clear signs of abatement containment I imagine the building is terribly contaminated with lead and asbestos.

@@jaysmith179 this place was decommissioned when George Bush was in office, but sure, continue to blame Biden for everything 😂

Yes, well its called development, having too many people and not enough space, what else are people going to do? live in the forest with the animals? lol live like caveman once did?. Sometimes buildings are removed because of hidden hazards too, you have no idea if there was mold in the walls or anything tbh, there could have been anything, maybe it was attracting too many rodents or animals. In Canada we are running out of room which sounds like the reason over there too. Land previously protected , we really have to choice but to develop. Its a necessary evil i suppose🧐 sometimes they make areas with really nice green spaces mixed in so i dont even see it as that bad or sometimes they put in a park so families can enjoy the area, and then theres a BIG beautiful green space that everyone can enjoy.