I really like old equipment and large machinery. And it's not often you get the opportunity to go on a personal tour of a power plant. And it's even more rare to get a personal tour of a power plant that was built in the early 1900s with a colorful and interesting history. Over the weekend a friend who works for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power took me on the coolest powerplant tour of perhaps the two most interesting hydro-electric power plants ever. Power plant two was at one point literally washed away when the St. Francis dam broke in 1928. The first image is of the cleanup after the dam failure. All that was left after the flood were the generators. And they were still spinning! Many of the other components were found, pulled back up the canyon, beat back into shape, and reused. And they are still in service today!   

I have some other images so if ya wanna see more lemme know. And for more info about the history of these two power plants and the St. Francis dam along with really cool old images go to scvhistory.com.