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Rltool 
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Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 6:21am |
I looked at a job for work over the weekend. The customer I was at let me take a couple pics of the power turbines they use. Was proud to see the name on them. Still going strong & producing power. Ray W.  
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Stan IL&TN
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Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 7:13am |
Very cool Ray!! 
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SteveM C/IL
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Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 7:55am |
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Mikez
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Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 8:35am |
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That's awesome. You should give the guy your number and have him call you and if they ever replace them, strip the nameplates for you, you never know.
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Dave (Mid-MI)
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Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 8:47am |
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Rltool
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Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 9:00am |
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Yeah, I would LOVE to get my hands on any of those name plates.
It is surprising how much AC electrical equipment is still out there. A friend of mine in electrical generation & maintenance over in NH. Has seen a lot of AC equipment over there also.
On the west side of the state Dave. We do work over in Essexville also.
Ray W.
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Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 9:05am |
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Thank you for posting!!
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Unit3
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Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 9:24am |
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Any idea of when they were put in service? Great pictures!!!
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Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 11:43am |
Thanks for posting.
Last year we were at the decommissioned Titan Missile Museum near Tuscon, AZ, and quite a few of the breaker panels and switch gear that was in the complex underground was AC.
Never tire of seeing the AC name in use.
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Bob-Maine
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Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 12:04pm |
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Several years AGO, I had a meeting at the soon-to-be decommissioned Maine Yankee nuclear power plant in Wiscasset, Maine. I was involved as they were going to be shipping hundreds of railroad carloads of low level nuclear contaminated material from the plant. I was a track safety inspector for the Federal Railroad Administration.
Somehow, in a lighter part of the meeting, my AC hobby came up. One of the reps. from the Stone and Webster engineering firm said that there were two AC generators on site, used to supply emergency power. Would I like to have the name plates?
Of course I had to refuse acct. the potential of a conflict of interest. I wish I had been in a position to say "yes". Bob@allisdowneast
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79fordblake
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Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 12:27pm |
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Wow thats great!!
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SteveM C/IL
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Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 12:38pm |
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Bob,you should've told him to send him to your wife!
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ACjack
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Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 12:54pm |
 macvette wrote:
Thanks for posting.
Last year we were at the decommissioned Titan Missile Museum near Tuscon, AZ, and quite a few of the breaker panels and switch gear that was in the complex underground was AC.
Never tire of seeing the AC name in use. |
The Harvey engine plant built the emergency generator sets for the Minute Man Missile sites.
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Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 3:46pm |
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Thank you very much for sharing the photos!
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caledonian
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Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 7:11pm |
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I remember when our local hospital had an emergency generator that was Allis Chalmers.
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Mikez
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Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 8:20pm |
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When I worked at the town we had sewer pump stations with allis pumps electric motors and gen sets. It was cool to see, wish I took pictures before they were taken out of service and filled in place. I was lucky to score a few pumps for my AC collection though lol
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EPALLIS
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Posted: 05 Dec 2016 at 9:13pm |
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Nice! Frame the pictures and sell them as art work!
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JayIN
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Posted: 06 Dec 2016 at 5:05am |
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Bagnell Dam , Lake of the Ozarks has several AC water turbine generators in it. You can take a tour. I've seen them twice. Once about 1964 and 1980. Made me feel pretty proud!!!
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sometimes I walk out to my shop and look around and think "Who's the idiot that owns this place?"
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Rltool
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Posted: 06 Dec 2016 at 5:34am |
Unit 3, I will have to ask next time I'm over there when they were put into service. Bob-Maine, your a much stronger man than I.  Ray W.
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wekracer
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Posted: 06 Dec 2016 at 6:02am |
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I work for the local power company and I noticed that quite a few of our sub station transformers have AC name plates.
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Ben (MI)
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Posted: 06 Dec 2016 at 6:02am |
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What plant are these in?
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CrestonM
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Posted: 06 Dec 2016 at 2:40pm |
 \ This looks like something similar.
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Rltool
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Posted: 06 Dec 2016 at 5:34pm |
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Ben, they are in West Olive.
Yeah they look the same Creston!
Ray W.
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JohnCO
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Posted: 06 Dec 2016 at 7:52pm |
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I think the turbines at Hoover Dam are AC's too.
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BrianC
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Posted: 06 Dec 2016 at 8:03pm |
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Surprised no one mentioned "Big Allis", the Ravenswood generating station in NYC. There is a lot of internet info on it.
Edited by BrianC - 06 Dec 2016 at 8:03pm
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DougG
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Posted: 07 Dec 2016 at 3:57am |
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Big Allis is awesome, but a lot of negative info on it too! It's still going I think
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WD45Diesel57
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Posted: 07 Dec 2016 at 7:31am |
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a number of years ago we took a tour of our local water treatment plant and in one room had three giant water pump and two of them still running strong were badged Allis. Dad and I thought that was cool.
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