Here you go. This is just east of the University Power Plant but not the Abbott plant you're thinking of. The Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (once called Engineering Research Laboratory) was, I was told, once the power plant. IT would have been within ten feet outside the north wall of that building. I've not independently verified that it was the once the power plant but it makes sense.
As for this building, with the trolley wire connection I'd always assumed it had been an IT carbarn until I found out it was where the locomotive test plant had been. (Hope someone saved all that data!) As a student there, I do remember seening RR wheels stacked outside a small building to the west. I think they must have been using a steam turbine fed off the university steam system to spin the wheels for their tests as white clouds would billow up when they were doing something.
Steve
UIUC Class of mumble-mumble
(Let's just say it was in the heyday of PLATO, which was headquartered in ERL)
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