| Koroinen transformer station, Turku (Åbo) |
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Despite the name, this target is not to be mixed with the Koroinen power station of Turku €nergia. That facility is further in the East, but in the same part of the city anyway. It seems that this transformer has been cold for quite long, but immediate vicinity of houses and a logistics firm has reduced unofficial visits.
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Basically it's not more than a transformer booth, but for such it is quite a big one. |
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Yard is occupied by pallets and other freighting stuff. |
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Access has been arranged via a window. Door is too stuck and rotten to be opened, but I think it's perfectly okay for people who visit places like this. |
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Basement contains rotten floors, maintenance related items, and as a bit of a surprise, some items related to diagram drawing work. |
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Now this Coke bottle is old. The fact that it was in one piece during the visit can be considered a miracle. |
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Bottle of SnO2? It's good opacifier, so most probably this must have something to do with ceramic insulators. |
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Reactive power meter in the basement. There are a few meters in the middle of something that otherwise looked like a completely normal wall. |
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When has this place been used? 50 years ago??! |
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High voltage storeys are behind a grill door. |
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Bakelite light switch of hard times. They haven't spent unnecessary raw material for this tiny thing. |
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The first floor has held transformers. They are just all missing. |
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What remains on the first floor, is the extra cool spiral staircase. It's iron and produced in Högfors, which tells how old it must be. |
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Some neighborhood sniper has trained here, or any other ideas? |
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Ehh.... What the heck!! Weird cyberpunk humour. |
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Second floor contains conventional marble panels. Too bad they are almost totally stripped. |
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Oil switch alley is pretty emptied also. |
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Lots of useless insulators here. |
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Arsenal of fuse holders. |
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Huh, quite a cable. Strangely this is about the only cable left in the building. |
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One transformer text. |
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Someone has painted local celeb, Mr. Numminen, on a wall near the transformer booth. Some people do have too much time. |
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