Abandoned Power Plant

[LPwonder2008]

i could run around and climb that shit all day..

[Charniman]

Turn on all switches !! XD

[MrXclio]

why do i keep seeing comments on these abandoned video's saying preserve it?

if every building or car was preserved that was on youtube... we would be bankrupt in no time. they are reasons places like these are closed, IE the power generators are no longer efficient enough.

[stayblazed954]

lol save it? what kind of power plant? your prolly getting cancer as your recording this

[albduke1]

is that what you call a brick shithouse built like a brick shithouse

[dwetick]

Copper! Baby... Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth! Go Get It! Axe and crowbar will do the trick!

[CRAZYCRAZYKEITH]

look at all that metal

[Misunderstooddhampir]

I love power plants in general, but especially nuclear power plants. I think we reserve this. Wow, i would love to visit this. I wonder why they shut it down...aww. Probably because it was WAY too old.

[Gumpa2]

would be AWESOME for airsoft :D

[RetroCaptain]

Good day

I echo the folks here who "like it".

The City or State imo should save it as a kind of museum. It already is a rusty wreck, but amazingly not "too far gone".

The land tax on the place must be quite high..

Very nice architecture!

[Lockemeister]

@RetroCaptain Yes! The plant should be preserved for future generations.

[daugnuts]

I heard the plant was shut down after homer simpson caused a catastrophic mess in springfield..thats where that is right?

[FFPThomas]

so much steel to sell :E and money is wasting there :D

[SaintlyMic]

Are these people crazy?

This is the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant!

[CerebrumPedere]

@SaintlyMic Go play at the Fukushima plant like this for a while. Bet you'll have a nice tan, er glow, when your done.

[davesanti]

@SaintlyMic You sir are a dumbass.

[dshmechanic]

If I was Bill Gates, I'd buy this joint and live in it. I just love abandoned machinery and factories!

[mightyfinejonboy]

beautiful machinery springs to mind

[gymkhanadog]

Wow, that place looks gorgeous. That might be hard for some people to understand given it's current condition, but look at all of the architecture and steel work. Nobody builds good looking stuff anymore. It's all about how energy efficient it is, or how futuristic it looks. Everything looks like everything else; bland and stark.

I'd love to have somewhere like that to do Urban Exploration. That place would keep me amused for weeks or months. Just think about all the history in there.

[herbrampe]

Phila, pa. 3901 Delaware Ave. Right next to the Betsy Ross Bridge.

[beefcassarole96]

what state is this in?

[RespectMyHate]

That is one beautiful power plant, even though it's in bad shape. They should do something with it.

[kingtiger01]

Wow look at all that wasted potential. Fix it up and turn it back on! we need that power on the grid now!!!! (theres youre problem, You unplugged it!)

[kingtiger01]

Look at all that wasted Electricity... thats all i can think.. why is this power plant not being Re-engineered and back in operation... we complain are grids are Taxed... Theres why "You unplugged it!"

[heartlessvietboy]

Look at this building. Whomever designed and built this power plant are Aliens or something. Look at the entirety, not of the stairs, but the lines on the stairs. Who would come up with a power plant?? Incredible.

[Modded25]

look at all that scrap metal...

[marshalljimduncan]

Turbine hall

[DanielTseng100]

this sites are my favourite because it's a little adventure

[onceANexile]

I need a nice copper tank !

[Pauliebuck]

where is this exactly

[HuaYifu]

@Pauliebuck on the building it says philadelphia electrical company

[600joe]

Over in Germany they turned an old steel plant into an urban park. 40 acres. Left it complete. Lawyers in USA couldn't let it happen here.

[zenmachinefilms]

Fascinating. Strangely beautiful. Reminds me of some of the abandoned steel mills in Pennsylvania, or some of the dead auto plants in Detroit.

[zmaster334]

idk about you, but I would try my HARDEST to start this thing up by myself lol

[gavincurtis]

American infra-structure rotting away..... very sad.

[lazzer408]

Paintball!

[torque395]

Was that an old coal plant?

[tetekofa]

@torque395 No, it's an old fusion plant...fuzing O with C.

[R5H4D0W]

@torque395 from the conveyors, I'd say yes

[herbrampe]

@torque395 It burned both coal and oil

[mdasilva73]

Save it Save it Save it!!!!!!

[74duster318]

What an amazing plant! It really should be preserved. Just think of all the engineering, technology, and materials that went into building this plant. Really a masterpiece, built during an age of American quality and pride, built to last. How things have changed since then...

[davetileguy]

You know how much scrap steel goes for?? waste

[Capee30]

Imagine paintballing in that place?! epic.

[synalag]

Des profondeurs de l'abime, Seigneur, je crie vers Toi ! (bible)

[wkat950]

If they can't preserve it as-is there could be a use for the turbines in a Third World country or they will fetch good prices for the metal. But leave the building.

[EverythingIn1One]

oh shit thats were we do are raves

[ismaelkhan]

i would love to see that place in action in 1930 :))))))))))

[ismaelkhan]

they sure dont make em like this anymore! its a damn shame too, all this image, eco crap pisses me off!

[NCCVE]

Look at this stuff, isn't it neat? Wouldn't you say my collection's complete?

[smashrumsy]

Thumbs Up for Urban Exploration

[transdetendal]

at 1:20 looks totlly steampunk

[BizarreWorks]

Fallout

[AGDemo]

They scraped it all gone..... :-(

[AGDemo]

Well it has been torn down and scraped......just big field now :-(

[luca20yo]

looks like a sceen from fallout 3

[longlive289s]

very cool. always wanted to find something like this in Washington state

[valvesuppliers]

that is definitely old

[iILMeeL]

cod map.

[MyR3vEnGe]

@iILMeeL i was thinking the same lol.

[QeXeQ]

yes, nice like a cancer machine? :D

[chibikawaiichris]

So you can just walk in there?

[Lunataari]

looks like somewhere slenderman would hang out at.

[freethoughtmusic]

Wow! A lot of old industrial buildings like that had a real beauty to them. It reminds me of the Battersea Power plant in London where the Pink Floyd album cover for Animals comes from. These old buildings are beautiful and should be preserved. I wonder why they closed it?

[HWGuyEG]

I want all the copper left sitting around...

[52111centrumcz]

@HWGuyEG

If this was Europe, the gypsies would have already stolen all of it.

[Mattprole]

Wow, I pass that power plant every day on my way to school. I see it from train, it is a very impressive building.

[micmacpro]

maybe its creepy wath y say but i wanna know wats under that water

[sertox12345]

where is this

[hotchicksandpuppies]

I live on east coast, and its a shame that plants like this sit idle. All that work, for what, a meusem. This is a perfect example of waste in the US. Tear it down, to build a new one, the next one is slated to have the best computers and less jobs than you see there now.

[axeman1314]

Perfect real world equivalent of the power plant in kanto

[HedgehogStudios1]

Take a dosimeter with you and you'll be alot less comfy in there

[dshmechanic]

@HedgehogStudios1 I'm sure there's a shit ton of friable ACM there, but it doesn't look like they're kicking up a lot of dust...which is good for them :)

[JISINSANE3]

Question, Why do them urban explorers always wear them round top hats?

[WantToSeeClips]

That would be an awsome place to play paintball at.

[DjSzemteXx]

aprox. how many power did this one made ? :?

[Ghstwn]

@DjSzemteXx How many power did this one made?;? Did you actually type that? How many brain you have no think? LOL!

[DjSzemteXx]

@Ghstwn LOL sorry :D I was falling asleep :D so I couldn't actually know how I was writing

[herbrampe]

@DjSzemteXx About 1000 megawatts if you include the combustion turbines in the yard outside the plant.

[hornerm5]

The reason why most very old coal power plant shut down are coal cost more than getting electric out and equipment are getting old and costly to replace.

[mrjdl1971]

Was it in a flood?

[dieselmatt02]

@mrjdl1971 It's probably groundwater seeping in to the basement of the plant. The power company I work for has an abandoned power plant and once they shut it down it didn't take long for the water to start making it's way into the basement of the plant and into the conveyor system that was underground. When the abandoned plant ,my company owns still operated, it had big pumps in the lower levels that kept them from flooding.

[R3MUS2007]

what a waste...Im sure I can salvage some of that stuff and make it work again.

[DarkQueen1995]

A place Freddy Krueger would call home

[Dofter4432]

two things: Paintball and Airsoft!

[Thermionman1970]

Look at this place.This place should be cleaned and turned into a museum.Look at that beautiful machinery and the control panel.It would be terrible if they tore it down.

[paratroop24]

@Thermionman1970 I totaly agree, I can't believe that Sloss FUrnace (Coolest Place on Earth) is the only preserved site of heavy industry.

[MrStudent1978]

@Thermionman1970 : Students should be given chance to see these machines to understand the basic principles at least. It is usually hard for them to see such machine parts in running power houses.

[RBRat3]

Aww man look at all that steel an iron just waiting to be harvested, I bet this place has shitloads of copper. I never understood why we leave large plants like this intact just to rot away.

[herbrampe]

@RBRat3 All the copper was remover by a salvage crew about 1988.

[pyro8818ak47]

JACKPOT, id be in there salvaging copper hahahaha

[UBERKron]

@pyro8818ak47 i think there are not many scrappies in the world yet, i am one you are another. good pickings in nz. two words. cordless grinder.

[pyro8818ak47]

@UBERKron Naw buddi, i got 3 words for ya, gas concrete saw, ive scraped a dumptruck by shoppin it in pieces with one of them, Good scrapin in windsor and the D too

[ddemko100]

cool when r they ganno tear it down to make more gas stations or houses that we just dont need... i wish people (espicaly socer moms) would just leave that alone and let people who just ont wanna be a safe suburaonite play in it

[SaGalv]

man i would take so many parts from that place if i was there to trade in for scrap metal lol.

[joeyb55]

this is (was) richmond generating station. Located in Philadelphia right near the Betsy Ross bridge (seen @ 1:40). The turbine/generator set seen @ :32 was #12 unit. I recieved the longest running unit award without coming off line back in the 1940's. This place, in its, hayday, was a show place the turbine hall was immaculate. The ceiling was a rotunda and was something to see. She burned coal then converted to #6 and crude oil. I was fortunate enough to have worked in her.

[John1576able]

Guys that's cool. But remember when you go into those old Power Plants, be aware of Asbestos. If you breath Asbestos dust into your lungs you are f@cked.

[SaGalv]

@John1576able not entirely, asbestos can possibly give you cancer, but its mostly people who worked with the shit there entire life that end up with cancer from it, dont get me wrong, if you are higher risk for cancer you might get it sooner then that....but even so, one time wouldnt do shit. 

[supramanz]

hook it to the grid...get er done

[BatixProductionsTE]

Where's the cold start video???

[jawbreakerzzz1]

dude thats cools as shit,,, just dont press any buttons!

[Bllackguard666]

@jawbreakerzzz1 LOL, no shit! "Hey, what's this butt...." *BOOM!*

[TylertheGeek28]

@Bllackguard666 lol starts WW3

[seriousstam]

Throw a dubstep party in there !

[HaydenWinnett321]

ITS THE ELECTRIC COMPANY!

aww, now I am sad...

[Tamcon05]

Wow it reminds me of Fallout 3. I guess they really did their research!

[SarmVX]

@Tamcon05 yeah same here i hope we never have to use those fucking bombs again or we'd end up in a hell like that game

[Si3z3]

dude scarp that shit

[carolinarednek]

That's an old coal fired plant.

[stefaan10111992]

Nuclear plant?? those only started coming up in the mid 50's, how can this one be from 25?

[madsen339]

@stefaan10111992 Not nuclear this one

[alamander70]

At the end on the building has The Philadelphia Electric Company in the brick work that is where the location is exactly I dont know not from around there.

[GrnArrow092]

Judging from the layout of the plant, this appears not to be a nuclear power plant. From the digging I've done, this is a coal power plant. One thing that gives it away is the conveyer belts outside. Nuclear power plants don't have those.

[doktorfuture]

It is beautiful. I'd love to live there. I have wonderful curtains that would spruce up the place and a long Moroccan rug that would look great in a hall.

[NoAnimalTesting1]

@doktorfuture I read your comment 1st & then watched the vid. Funny comment! I want to see you decorate the power plant!

[MrKiwijosh]

how fun is looking round abandoned places sad at the same time :(

[datasurferable]

Kind of looks like Robocop's set. But robocop was filmed in Monessen. Is this a nuke?

[synthesizer301]

man i wish i could go with you there

i love that old machinery

very nice vid anyway

[pdlong123456789]

Very cool vid. I work at a plant that makes power. Also done some urbex with vids on utube. ...don't suppose you'd mind giving away the location via PM!? :)

[hootinouts]

Is this the Eddystone Plant in Chester PA?

Were those gun shots at .10?

[herbrampe]

@hootinouts No Richmond Station, Phila.

[rabie4x4]

Wow, the arches on the coal belt structure! This is an old old plant!

[Katiefoolery]

The inside was fascinating, but I just loved the last few shots of the exterior. That's quite an impressive set of buildings.