It’s always hard to fathom how something as large, expensive, and integral to a city’s history as Philadelphia’s Delaware River Generating Station winds up abandoned. Dust floated lazily through the air of the turbine hall, illuminated by some impressive shafts of light filtering in through the skylights overhead, and I felt, as I often do in abandoned buildings, that I was now in a place that had transcended time itself and stood in both the past and present, part of both and neither.
Once Philadelphia’s main power plant, Delaware River Generating Station is now an abandoned urban exploration paradise.