The boiler room has four big boilers in it, which seems like overkill. No wonder this plant could supply power to the works and the town at full capacity!
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Installed in 1904 at the center of the plant, this is one of two batteries of boilers. Being in Oshkosh, heat was very important to keeping labor moving in the cold months.
The Engine House’s boiler, which would have been fired all day all day, virtually from the day the shop opened until the day it closed.
David Aho, the owner of Mitchell Engine House, poses beside the boiler.
The basements of the barracks were often stone and brick, and many of them were connected by short tunnels.
Some small candles light one of the few surviving tunnels that once linked buildings on the campus with the steam plant. In winter, it was common for patients to be transported through these to avoid the cold, and during the Cold War these served as nuclear fallout shelters.
In front of a rust-welded Illinois rotary stoker is where the boiler-men made their mark. The last year I can make out is 1985.
The bottom of the stairs leading from the work floor to the cafeteria.
One of the early automated painting booths in the paint plant line.
A colorful boiler is a happy boiler! RotoGrate systems remove ashes from the boiler firebox by revolving the bottom of the system to let the fly ash drop into a hopper. This greatly increases boiler efficiency.