Millions of gallons

of surging water,
unstopping, relentless,
swirling through the gorges,
hurdling over the rocks,
furiously charging, headlong,
like a mighty herd of buffalo
racing madly toward a precipice,
but on a scale
and with an intensity
that overwhelms the observer,
reducing one to a mere spectator,
humbled by the sound and the fury
of nature's most enduring
exhibition of unbridled power
at a place called …
Niagara Falls

Source: The author, 2004.

View this poem on the Niagara Falls Poetry Project website

The Rankine Generating Station, also known as the Canadian Niagara Power Generating Station, is a Beaux-Arts building that produced power from 1905 to 2005. It supplied the electricity for Fort Erie, 30 kilometers (18 miles) upstream. The Niagara Parks Commission has plans to open the power plant as a tourist attraction in 2021, as the building and equipment is still in excellent shape.