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Equipment Terminal #1, personnel entrance, level III, Lowry 724-C. Looking through entrance into level III. Taken: October 22, 2000 Source: myself - fecebgone-et resize
Equipment terminal level I, Lowry 724-C. Sewage ejector on lowest level. Taken: circa September 2003 Source: myself - filtration-10-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C showing indicators and controls for the pneumatic portion of the air filtration facility. These boxes would monitor and maintain pressure and humidity in the air system. Radiation levels were also monitored in this area. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - filtration-11-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C showing the access door leading to the pre-filtered side of the air handling system where outside air entered through air ducts to have any dust and particulate sifted out by centrifugal means in cyclonic dust separators on the other side. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - filtration-12-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C looking down the tunnel toward the tunnel junction that supplied air to launcher area #1 (below the metal grating by the pipes). Directly behind the viewer in this photo is the air facility fan that moved the air out to the launcher tunnels. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - filtration-13-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C showing the cyclonic dust separators viewed from below where all the dust settled out into a series of hoppers for removal. As air traveled through these separators, it would spiral around inside these tubes and settle out through the bottom as air moved through. This area is below the floor level where the fan is located. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - filtration-14-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C showing the collection hoppers for the cyclonic dust separators. This area is below the floor level where the fan is located and is accessed by a ladder via an access hatch in the floor. It appears that collection bags or an auger system was used to remove the dust, but that equipment has itself been removed from the hoppers. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - filtration-15-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C showing the cyclonic dust separators viewed from above where the air exited the separators through the tops of the many separation tubes. As air traveled through these separators, it would spiral around inside these tubes allowing dust to settle out through the bottom as air moved through. This area leads directly to the centrifugal fan which is just behind the camera in this view, separated by a partition wall. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - filtration-16-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C showing the cyclonic dust separators viewed from above where the air exited the separators through the tops of the many separation tubes. As air traveled through these separators, it would spiral around inside these tubes allowing dust to settle out through the bottom as air moved through. This area leads directly to the centrifugal fan which is separated by a partition wall. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - filtration-17-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C showing the access hatch and ladder to the lower level which allowed maintenance and removal of collected dust from the cyclonic dust separators. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - filtration-18-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C showing one of the 4 48" blast valves that allowed air to enter the filtration system through a series of dampers on the right of this photo. Air entered these dampers and passed through an array of cyclonic dust separators before being forced out to the launcher tunnels by a centrifugal fan. The access hatch to the lower level can be seen open in this view. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - filtration-19-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C showing the bottom of an access ladder just before the blast valves with an odd accumulation of mineral salts. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - filtration-20-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C looking at an extremely robust support beam and access ladder at the bottom of the air intake shaft. The corrugated steel lining the vertical air intake shaft is visible in the left side of the image. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - filtration-9-lafa
Launcher Air Filtration Facility at Lowry 724-C looking down the maintenance access to the lower level where the collection hoppers for the cyclonic dust separators are located. Taken: Circa 2002 Source: Myself - generator-room-1
Unknown squadron and site undergoing salvage operations. Presumed to be taken in the early 1970's, this photo shows the dismantling of the ice banks in the power house dome. The generators have already been removed and this does not appear to be a Lowry site as the construction of the floor and mezzanine are inconsistent with that of the 724th and 725th sites. Please contact me at chromehooves@hotmail.com if you have any information on this photo. Any help identifying this or any other photos in the archive is greatly appreciated. Taken: Unknown-- probably late 1960's to early 1970's. Source: provided courtesy of the Titan Missile Museum/Nick Halliday (http://www.titanmissilemuseum.org/)