Toledo, OH: 1918-1993 72mw ACME Power Plant

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72mw was the capacity after the turbines were upgraded in 1941. It was mothballed in 1993, but never turned back on. Demolition was announced in 2007 and done in 2013. [gem]   

Don Nichols posted 15 photos with the comment: "August 29, 2011."

Evan Manley: ACME plant,

Toledo, Ohio is the location since it wasn’t posted for those wondering.

Beautiful plant, shame its gone

Brennen Williams: Evan Manley built in 1918 and 72MW of generating capacity. Was closed in 1993. Agree that it is a shame that it’s gone, but was a very small and outdated plant. The National Museum of the Great Lakes which now sits in the property is a better use of the land in my opinion.

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Don Nichols posted ten more demolition photos from Mar 2011.

 

Global Earth, Apr 1993

It was served by the Pennsy RR.

1952 Toledo Quad @ 24,000

DetoritUrbex, this site has many interior photos of the gutted plant.

East Toledo Historical Society posted
Toledo Edison ACME Power Plant 1928. Gigantic Turbine repair.

 

Facebook, 1955

This was a former steel mill site. [HolyToledoHistory]

They must have done a lot of landfill because the site of the power plant used to be under water in 1890. Since this was the site of a former steel mill, a lot of that landfill is probably slag.

MetroParksToledo, 1890

Don Nichols posted
A drawing of the Acme Power Plant's boiler house that was built in the 1910s.
[A comment confirms that this was the Toledo plant.]
Ron Simons: A lot of utility boiler history was in that building. From those shown above then 13 boiler. It was one of the first pulverized coal boilers in the state - if not the first. Then 14 & 15 boilers added and finally 16 boiler. Quite the powerplant.

In 1971 they had turbine overspeed accident.

GoogleNewspapers
"THE BLADE: TOLEDO, OHIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1971"

They left the smokestacks standing during machine demolition and then used explosives to take them down. This is one of the videos I saw of the first two going down. I didn't see any videos about the third one going down.

3:11 video @ 0:00

The third one was left standing because the mayor planned to remove the top third of the 298' tall stack and then decorate it as a lighthouse. [bloomberg] Evidently that plan didn't happen because I could not find the stack on a satellite image.