Mechanicville Hydroelectric Station Tour

[dkassaca]

Nice video.............. music could be improved

[ohlhous]

@dkassaca you are probably right...

[JetMechMA]

The lock and dam at Lockport Illinois looks very similar. I'm not sure who designed it.

[JetMechMA]

What about the hydro-electric lock and dam at Lockport Illinois on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal? It was built at the same time and is still producing power.

[lslavychecker]

WOW!! --Can they make it work again???Or it is still producing electricity...beautiful location ...

[ohlhous]

@lslavychecker It is still working.

[Blacklab1]

What is the two units (with the number 8 on the left side) attached to each other at time 1:11? Is that a AC to DC converter?

[ohlhous]

@Blacklab1 Motor Generator set for changing the Frequency.

[TheMrBlinx]

This isn't a video, it's a slide show, and it's not really a tour, either. The music is obnoxious. Had to turn it off.

[ohlhous]

@TheMrBlinx Maybe it is a "mixed media presentation". The images where collected while Jim Besha was giving a tour of the facility.

[Palifiox]

Pity about the crap "music".

[ohlhous]

@Palifiox I had another different set of less crappy music originally, but then Youtube said I was infringing on the copyright. I added this song to the video from their list of free stuff.

[Sirrom0206]

(Circ 1986) While repairing a battery bank for telecommunications distribution hub, my guide took me and a coworker into the Philippine mountains to see the power plant. After crossing Indiana Jones rope walkways we reached an operational hydro-electric power plant. Still running was a Pelton Water Wheel from 1913 and a GE generator a patent date of 14 Aug 1900. The switch gear was something from a Frankenstein film. I will post my slides after I converted them to digital.

Very Cool Vid!

[pfun41]

1:11 thats still efficnect enough to use?

[heartlessvietboy]

Can we generate electricity by building a damn in the ocean? How will it effect ocean life?

[MeOnYT]

why the head banking music for this type of vid? it doesn't fit!

[Poorboy577]

good song but not in this vid lol but not too informative either :S

[markelltt]

wats this song called

[ohlhous]

@markelltt All Over Me by Drowning Pool

[LetsPlayStarcraft]

@markelltt I dunno

[chardnj]

what:s up with the music hehehe..I am in my bed at 12:15 midnight hehehe..loud music..hahahaha..

[railroad4u]

no sound at all would be a vast improvement over the current selection..still an intresting video

[ohlhous]

Perhaps you are right.

[nole49]

@railroad4u turn the volume off

[Probewitch]

Very very cool video.

Upstate NY should get more credit for its

educational and technological achievements bot past and present.

[ohlhous]

Thanks for the kind words, Probewitch.

[planetdarwin]

I think it's funny how people posing in old photos just had their arms flat to the side and the most basic pose possible. I believe it's because the camera shutter had to stay open much longer (like 10-30 seconds) so the basic pose was necessary and I understand why, but it still looks funny. I'm going to start posing like that in photos. :)

[inventorisac]

veja!

[DiskTwenty]

What an incredibly obnoxious and annoying song during this video.

[ohlhous]

I originally had a different (annoying)song, but owners rights was a problem and they made me switch out the sound track, so now none of the video sound is not available, just the current annonying song.

[ctmcmull1]

I agree completely. I am baffled that anyone would think the music would complement the majesty of the engineering. At least speakers can be turned off.

[k9feces]

Can you get a tour and the NYSEG plant up the river? and post a vid?

[ohlhous]

I'd Like to; that would be great. Never heard of a tour at that facility.

[k9feces]

They gave tours when it first opened about 25 years ago. It must be impressive because the entire volume of the river flows through the station unless river levels are very high.

[ohlhous]

I shall look into it...

[W1237654]

My Dad works there

[coolbluelights]

Do they give regular tours? I live pretty close and i'd like to go

[Aussie50]

Awesome equipment!, i love old open frame genny's and motors like those.

Great music too, but I'd love to hear the gennys running too!

[ohlhous]

You can hear the generators in these two very short videos:

"Mechanicville Power Plant" and "Mechanicville Hydro Plant Generators".

[Aussie50]

Thx m8, I guess theres a bit too much background noise to hear the humming of the stators clearly.

[coolbluelights]

This is very close to where I live! a few years ago we drove past it I gotta definitely take the tour now!

[Cabotop1]

I am a Hydro Electric Station Operator at a 62 MW plant in Turners Fall, MA.

The plant went online in February of 1916. I would love a tour of this plant. Does anyone know who I should contact to make this happen?

[ohlhous]

Albany Engineering runs this hydro plant.

[superasg3]

I wonder if you can help me... i have some questions about hydroelectric generators...

[Nec1228]

i had no idea that plant was so old!

[Hallaran]

JD,  Thanks for the great video. That is a keeper! Don't know how lomg they will keep that station around. Hopefully forever but you never know. Later, Jack

[hpsteamjeff]

I think [Unforgetable] by Nat King Cole would be just right for this one. The generators are as unforgetable as Nat and as beautiful as the song

[hpsteamjeff]

Why dimish this beaitful American turn of the century power plant with some rock and roll music? Thanks for the tour

[ohlhous]

My pleasure, sharing the video. It's pretty noisey in the plant when it is running, so I just blanked out the plant audio altogether. I happen to like the song I used, and it's much better than no sound at all. Thanks for your comments.

[HYPERmax9000]

But we like the sound of generators :-(

[NathanH5]

I agree...I would LOVE to hear the sound of the gennies! Wonderful video otherwise, thanks!

I prefer youtube videos with original sound. Never like it when they remove the sound and overwrite it with music. >:^((

[coondogtheman1234]

Love this song Linkin park is awesome

[fubang500]

wow old plant the one im in now was built 1919 its a shit hole coal burner in edwardsport indiana nice job on vid

[qwerk]

I'd like a tour of this plant.  Who do I call to arrange a visit?

Thanks

[brw147]

you have to love the engineering. i mean, those older units usually run like shit (the ones i was around would catch fire alot) but to realize that those were built in 1897, it's pretty amazing.

[Bureyeanne]

this music doesn't match the video at all.

[jaminwind]

Wow, everyone speaking about the music. Seems kind of play school. Mr. "Old Engine" everyone likes a their own music. Keep it to yourself.

[dgh335]

Great Clip!

[oldengine1]

Great video - soundtrack sucks.

[ztfizzy]

If only tesla was here! he would be impresed.We have all the power without fossle fuels.

[boxa888]

yea i was gonn say the same thing. its amazing tesla built the very first hydroelectric powerplants at niagra falls for america and canada and thats how the power grid was created,i wonder if he was apart of this project, he probably was considering how old it is. just stick a wardenclyffe tower next to this and give everyone wireless electricity!!!

[blackshippo]

ilove this sone

=^-^=

[strutanich]

always could try bagpipes, but really this type, only my opinion, flows with tracks less vocals and more sounds. listen to the web advertisement for the braun pulsonic razor, the sound might work

[strutanich]

nice but the music doesn't match well

[ohlhous]

any suggestions for the next one I do?

[KC0TLV]

Perhaps, if you are going to add music, consider celtic or bluegrass? - and include some of the natural sounds in behind the music - balance them well.

[apeppink]

Man that's old stuff. Well maintained equipment will go forever.

[ohlhous]

The 4.5 megawatt plant began operating in 1898 and is on the National Register of Historic Places

[Karlsjones]

I work in a Seventy Five year old Hydro Plant in England, lovely to see this video. Perhaps I should do one too. I must admit though, our machines aren't quite so splendid!

[Superkepo]

beautiful facility...but what's with the emo?  Don't ya know original late 70's post punk is the way to go?

[kbbesha]

Excellent showing of the nation's oldest continuously running hydroplant! Bravo!

[k9feces]

I want a tour, FYI it was shut down for awhile when it was renovated.