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Monthly Image: Wappinger Dam Gears
A walk around Wappinger Lake brought me to the old penstock controls:

Wappinger Dam – old penstock gearing – E view Still meshed after all these years:

Wappinger Dam – old penstock gearing – SE view The “new” penstock intake control, a pair of utterly practical and totally non-photogenic screw drives, sits just to the left of these relics.
A night view of the penstock from some years ago:

Wappingers Falls Bridge – Pixel XL HDR – 2017-09-22 It still carries water to the recently refurbished power plant downstream on the right.
Those gears will remain meshed after everything else rots away …