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I will attempt to do my best to take you on a tour through the Fort Peck power plant.
What you are looking at is the newer of the two power plants. The tunnels you see to your left are 24' 8" in diameter. The water comes out of those tunnels so fast that they had to build a break water which is all those cement blocks in the water. They are there to prevent erosion down stream.
This is one of two transformer grids.
This is what it looks like down stream from the power plants. This is what you saw in that previous picture of the Missouri River meeting up with the Milk River.
This is the other transformer grid.
Those are the control valves at the top of the dam.
This is a plaque inside the power plant.
A cross section picture of the dam.
A model of a dinosaurs skeleton.
This is a fossil of the Rex with real teeth around it!
Another model but the skeleton is real this time!
The front cover of Life Nov. 23, 1936
Arrow Heads.
An aerial picture of the dam.
JR ??????? Wake up!
I hope you can read this.
This is where all the electric power goes!
Looking straight up at the surge bin housing.
This generator is located in the old power plant.
A plaque mounted right on the generator.
This is one of the turbine shafts. It rotates at just over 100 M.P.H.!
These are control cables that run from the generators to the control room. There are miles and miles of these in the trays that carry them.
This is another turbine shaft. As you can see, we were allowed to feel the spin on this one.
A view of down stream from the base of the power plant.
Our tour guide.
The crane is used to lift the generators for maintenance and repair. It can roll across the entire length of the room on those tracks.
This generator is in the new power plant. It is capable of producing 40,000 kW of electricity and runs cooler than the older ones.
This is the actual surge bin. It is used to absorb the surge that happens when the control valves are closed. There is one surge bin for each of the power plants. They each are 148' tall and 65' in diameter. And they can hold 4.5 million gallons of water! They are wrapped with an insulating material to prevent condensation. Without this, it would "rain" in here constantly!
A close-up of one of the tunnels.
These transformers are huge!
And last, a good shot of the newer power plant.
Tomorrow I will try to have pictures of Glasgow Montana posted. There is personal as well as significant history still to be seen!
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