The mechanism consisted of "11 vertical steel shafts, each running from a turbine in the deep pit to a generator 130 feet above".

Power was transmitted to a transformer station in another Niagara Falls, Ontario location via underground cables.

A September 2019 report provided these additional specifics:[7] Housing 11 vertical penstocks, water from the Niagara River would enter through the forebay and drop 180 ft (54.8 metres) before being expelled into a 2,000 ft (609.6 metres) tunnel that emptied into the lower Niagara River, right at the base of the Horseshoe Falls.The station was licensed to generate a maximum of 76.4MW of 25 Hz AC current using its eleven generators.

[12][13] In October 2019, the Niagara Parks Commission publicized plans to re-open the facility in 2021 as a historic industrial site for the purposes of tourism.

A report by a journalist who visited the station indicated that the interior remained pristine, with generators painted blue and "doors and enormous hinges made of copper, mosaic tile floors, a beautiful clock at one end of the main hall, marble control panels with old school switches that date to the 1920s, and fittings and other instruments".