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I was an operator at this plant from 1999-2002. It was a beautiful plant then. It is sad to see the condition it is in now. Some of the best people I have ever worked with were the ones here at The Warren Station. I remember signing the Wall of Fame. Thank you for the walk through. I've always wanted one more look before it was torn down. Phil Pantall

3600 RPM. Most likely ran for 50 plus years. Remarkable machines. I am a retired Steam Turbine designer from GE.

Being a retired Maintenance Foreman of several different types of power plants, I really enjoy these type of videos. I started in operations of the plants, then moved to maintenance. I took part in the decommisioning 2 plants and 5 units, recommissioning of 1 plant and  2 units, commissioned 9 units on 2 plants, over a 33 year career.  Be safe!

5:53 “helped pull the plug” -Grimmy was also the last guy to sign the log book at 28:04.  Just thought that was neat.

This video really hit home. I worked as an operator in a power plant for 26 years. It was bought by a major oil company and shut down for good in 2017. Myself and a friend who had also been there for 26 years were the last two people to leave as the gates were all chained shut. It was a very quiet last day. Great video, guys.

GE is green, Westinghouse is blue. The hydrogen label on the generator means it operates in a slightly positive pressure hydrogen atmosphere to make it more efficient.

The abandoned power plants are my most favorite!  I could watch these all day.  The art deco design, no vandalism, your haunting music... I never would imagined 30 years ago, that I would be watching basically a live-action history book like this. And you're both so young, but with such a deep understanding of your place in history.  I can't stress enough how much I love this channel.

My Dad was a steam fitter that worked in various power plants in Pa. Unfortunately he died from mesothelioma due to years of asbestos exposure at these plants. Anyways thank you for this video, I could see exactly what he was talking about all those years ago. RiP Chick

It's crazy to think that if y'all didn't return, Wormwood might have never been documented, and been completely lost to time!

A restroom truly fit to be used by "gentlemen", a turbine hall that looks like a fancy auditorium, and that tile work throughout! The time  and manpower invested into its construction, I can barely imagine. I could have spent hours in that unmolested control room marveling over its mostly analog features. Old power plants are so fascinating, great tour :)

That employee wall is so cool! That part should be in a museum of industry or something. I suspect it was torn down with the rest though...

May Wormwood rest peacefully in the depths of this deconstructed time capsule

The house in which I grew up was less than a mile downwind of that plant. My next-door neighbor worked there for probably 20 years. Before they installed a scrubber on the smokestack, everything would get coated with a thin film of coal dust - the grass, snow, trees, cars parked outside. Your feet would turn black from walking on the lawn barefoot. There was also a set of high-tension transmission lines running just 50 yards from my house. On the bright side, fishing was good near where the plant discharged warm water into the Allegheny River.

Nothing better than TPP exploring power plants

Wow...  This video gave me flashbacks of working at the coal-burning power plant back in 1989 at School of the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Missouri.  It was a work-study program that I was drafted into, since I was a freshman (so I didn't have much choice in what work-study job I got).  I worked it diligently, and always smelled of sulphur and soot the following day, since the job was typically done at night.  We didn't actually generate power per se, but we Did generate superheated steam that was sent to different buildings across the campus, which provided heat for the dorm rooms and greenhouses, and heat and sanitation for the cafeteria and other places that needed it.

I remember going to the power plant one evening, and Marty (the supervisor at the time) warned us that the shipment of coal was 'dirty' and that it could potentially 'flash in the firebox'.  Umm, what?  Except, I learned Exactly what he meant later that evening.  I was moving the coal hopper between the boilers, filling it with coal from the silo and dumping it into the automated conveyor for boiler number one, since the second boiler was temporarily decommissioned due to a ruptured super-heated steam pipe inside the firebox.  The firebox was about 15 feet long, and an automated steel conveyor carried the coal from the hopper into the firebox, where it was Supposed to burn as soon as it entered the firebox.  Except this batch of coal was wet and had a lot of mud in it, so the coal was being pulled into the firebox without catching fire.

A coworker called me at about 9pm and told me that he was going to be late, and asked me to clock him in, and I didn't do it.  Because, Heck, if I could make it, why couldn't He?  I went down below to take pH readings for the boiler water and added chemicals to bring it back to neutral, and logged what I found into the logbooks.  I went back upstairs and saw that the boiler pressure was dropping, so I looked into the firebox through one of the shuttered viewports and saw that a strip of unburned coal had been pulled about halfway into the boiler, and the head (leading edge of the strip of coal) was Barely burning.  I remembered what Marty said, about how the dirty wet coal would be pulled in rapidly and subsequently dry out, and then all flash at once, so I warned my coworkers to be wary of the escape routes in case something bad were to happen.

Then...  it happened.  I looked at the boiler pressure and it was Rapidly rising, and I looked into one of the viewports and the entire strip of coal was an Inferno.  I almost couldn't look through the port because the radiant heat was so intense!  I called my coworkers to the surface (the lower levels were for testing the boiler water pH and for cleaning the coal ash from the lower part of the boiler).  We waited up top with our eyes glued to the pressure gauge that stood prominently between the boilers - 90, 120, 150, 180 pounds per square inch, it rose so rapidly!

Finally...

I thought the place exploded.  I heard a mighty Slam, and a Roar that was so intense that it rendered a dragons' call on par with a dove's coo.  I looked left at my coworker, who appeared to be talking to me, maybe Yelling at me, but I only heard white noise.  I couldn't hear his voice at all.  I yelled back at him but couldn't hear my own voice, just the rush of steam through some exit somewhere.  We left the plant and looked at the west side of the building, and a 6-inch pipe had a Terrible Noise coming from it, way louder than I thought would have been coming from even a passenger jet just before takeoff.  I looked further west and saw where the superheated steam was finally condensing from a transparent vapor into a water cloud, and remembered when Marty demonstrated the dangers of superheated steam by opening a valve next to a boiler, and passing a piece of paper through whatever was coming out of the valve, which immediately burned it as fast as he could pass it through the jet of vapor.

I don't know why I did, maybe it was Marty's training or maybe I was just nuts, but I went back inside and looked at the boiler pressure and saw that it was almost back to normal, and then I heard another Slam!  ...and silence.  A silence that I'd never experienced.  A silence that eventually gave way to a high-pitched ringing and hissing, a noise that I still hear today.

So Yeah, take that map at 3:45 and subtract it by two boilers (S of O only had two boilers at the time), and that's where I worked for my first jaunt at college life after coming off an impoverished farm, no thanks to the corporate farms that Sucked the Life out of the local farmers who were just trying to make a living.  Disgusting.  But I digress.

I hope you kept some of the signage before they tore the place down.  Even though it is what it is, it's Still our history.

We can't progress if we don't know where we came from.

Happy to provide music for this episode. What a creepy place!

I worked at the Lovett power station in NY up until it closed in 2008. Our plant too, was built in '48 and we had 3 working steam turbine/ generators.  Our main fuel was coal, but we could also burn gas and oil. Our plant closed and was demolished.  I really enjoyed my 7 years at the plant, made great money and felt good about my job. There were a number of plant systems that needed attention and safety was top priority.  We generated power that all used, and were part of the NY metro power grid.

I haven’t watched you guys for years and I come back after seeing a notification for a video. Your content is still the best quality out there. My go to urbex channel.

That never happens. An abandoned place that hasnt been ransacked by looters, scrappers or vandals. Amazing look into a piece of history practically untouched, awsome video guys!